PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows API

by Daniel Appleman

Book Overview

A book-and-disk package not only teaches the fundamentals of the Windows API and the Visual Basic-Windows Interface, but also demonstrates window's built-in functions and messages, with examples from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562760734
• ISBN13: 9781562760731
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Ziff-Davis Press
• Length: 1020 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A excellent guide to writing windows applications.

I've been programming in Visual C++ and Visual Basic since 1993, and I found "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows Api/Book" to be a valuable reference manual. Here's what I liked: easy to understand narrative, lots of examples, and a complete structural understanding of windows programming. Using API calls in VB has helped me acheive functionality I was familar with in Visual C++.

This is the best book I have seen for Visual Basic.

I have been programing with Basic since 1975 and I have read and studdied many books on the subject. I work almost strictly in graphics and without this book you can do very little graphics using the standard Visual Basic commands. This book covers every aspect of the API's and has left out very few. The ones that were left out you would probubly never need anyway. I now have Widows 95 and I am going to order his new Programer's guide to the Win32's as I now know that Daniel Appleman is the only one that I can find that really knows the Windows System and how to make Visual Basic do all that stuff that you always wanted to do but never thought you could learn. Jim Alexander

Great book for those curious about Windows' internal process

Visual Basic progammers have often been limited by VB's "keep it safe" policy. This book shows you how to go above and beyond Visual Basic's internal functions, without overstepping its bounds. This book is a must have for anyone who is beginning to feel limited by Visual Basic. Break out of VB's cage

A great reusable tool for the first time investor

The author Mr. Daniel Appleman covers a lot of detail on using Windows API Functions. It is made simple such that even a novice programmer will be able to understand the book and use it in his programs. He explains every thing in detail. A great reusable tool for the first time investor It's well worth the money paid for.