- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (22 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201379368
- ISBN-13: 978-0201379365
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,950,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The era of stand-alone, self-contained applications is rapidly ending. Distributed, networked applications have become critical to meeting business needs in a fast-paced, dynamic world. Until now, building networked Windows applications wasn't easy. But now Microsoft has released a powerful new Windows Internet API (WinInet) that dramatically simplifies the process of creating Internet-enabled Windows applications. WinInet makes it possible to create Windows applications that can download Web pages, access server applications, upload and download files, and traverse Gopher document systems--allowing developers to build such sophisticated Windows Internet applications as full-fledged Web browsers, home banking applications, and stock portfolio programs. Essential WinInet is a comprehensive guide to this powerful Windows Internet API. It starts with a tutorial on WinInet basics and a methodical description of the API's protocol-specific functions for HTTP, FTP, and Gopher, then proceeds to explore more advanced topics, examining how WinInet works with other Internet tools and client/server technologies. This book addresses such essential topics as: *Using WinInet with MFC and Visual Basic *Understanding asynchronous WinInet *Writing HTTP COM components *Establishing dial-up connections, including applying the RAS API *Introducing the concept of client/server Internet programming *Implementing a complete client/server solution using WinInet with ISAPI and ASP Numerous sample applications throughout this book explore WinInet's capabilities and show you how to put the API to work. The samples include a full-featured asynchronous FTP client for Windows; a stock portfolio application that can connect to real-time Internet stock quote providers; and a client/server application that incorporates WinInet, ISAPI, and ASP. Much more than just a tutorial, this practical resource contains the kinds of pointers, work-arounds, and creative solutions that will save you hours of frustration and inspire you to make full use of the API. 0201379368B04062001
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The era of stand-alone, self-contained applications is rapidly ending. Distributed, networked applications have become critical to meeting business needs in a fast-paced, dynamic world. Until now, building networked Windows applications wasn't easy. But now Microsoft has released a powerful new Windows Internet API (WinInet) that dramatically simplifies the process of creating Internet-enabled Windows applications.
WinInet makes it possible to create Windows applications that can download Web pages, access server applications, upload and download files, and traverse Gopher document systems--allowing developers to build such sophisticated Windows Internet applications as full-fledged Web browsers, home banking applications, and stock portfolio programs.
Essential WinInet is a comprehensive guide to this powerful Windows Internet API. It starts with a tutorial on WinInet basics and a methodical description of the API's protocol-specific functions for HTTP, FTP, and Gopher, then proceeds to explore more advanced topics, examining how WinInet works with other Internet tools and client/server technologies. This book addresses such essential topics as:
- Using WinInet with MFC and Visual Basic
- Understanding asynchronous WinInet
- Writing HTTP COM components
- Establishing dial-up connections, including applying the RAS API
- Introducing the concept of client/server Internet programming
- Implementing a complete client/server solution using WinInet with ISAPI and ASP
Numerous sample applications throughout this book explore WinInet's capabilities and show you how to put the API to work. The samples include a full-featured asynchronous FTP client for Windows; a stock portfolio application that can connect to real-time Internet stock quote providers; and a client/server application that incorporates WinInet, ISAPI, and ASP. Much more than just a tutorial, this practical resource contains the kinds of pointers, work-arounds, and creative solutions that will save you hours of frustration and inspire you to make full use of the API.
0201379368B04062001
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was laid out very nicely and covered all the topics a developer needs to know in order to create Internet-enabled applications. And I agree with the other reviewers that it may be the best book on WinInet (isn't it the ONLY book?), can be used as a reference guide, and the asynchronous section was insightful.
However, for a developer who is trying to take these APIs in a new direction (really do some hard-core ATL with C++) with COM, I found the book a bit lacking. [Admittedly, this book was focused on applications, not objects]. I needed more information about creating UI-less COM objects and perhaps I was looking for this book to do more than it claims. For example, the pre-IE5 WinInet API set doesn't support UNICODE and that information is key to C++ COM developers.
Definitive Guide? Not quite.
If you're looking to do some hard-core COM development with WinInet, I'd stick with the WinInet Reference on Microsoft's site, grab a good ATL reference and go from there (espeically if you're someone who can pick up a new, relatively small API set quickly. There's really nothing to WinInet).
If you're just using VB to create your COM objects or application, then this book is a good resource.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yes, you can read the on-line docs about Wininet, but this book covers the subject in a more comprehensive, organised manner. Great code samples. Good section on COM component categories. Improved my understanding of how the Internet and HTTP work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you know something about WinInet already, don't expect to learn new low-level tidbits or tricks. MSDN is all you need in the way of reference.
Buy it if you want a well-organized tutorial.
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Excellent intro to the WinInet API.
I was up and coding within a few hours of reading chapters 1 through 3. The clearly written source code demonstrates the principles and pitfalls of working with the API in no... Read more
Published on 9 July 1999
Stick with the MSDN library and MS web site
These sources cover everything you need about this fairly small API.
Published on 29 Jun 1999
Excellent primer on WinInet and it's various applications
Skonnard's book clearly explains the basics of using WinInet and provides useful examples that tie WinInet into other technologies that I use, such as COM, MFC and ASP. Read more
Published on 13 May 1999
Nice and neat!
Very good book if you want to start developing with WinInet. Excellent content and easy to follow logic. Valuable code samples. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 1999
An excellent User's Guide for Microsoft's Wininet interface.
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Published on 5 Nov 1998
The definitive guide to the WinInet API
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Published on 5 Nov 1998
Best WinInet book
WinInet is the best API for developing internet apps, and this is the best book on WinInet. It gives you the background that you need to understand internet app development with... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 1998
Excellent instruction on a sparsely documented topic
I reviewed this book for the publisher and found it to be an excellent tutorial on a subject that has been begging for better coverage. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 1998
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