- Paperback: 656 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (6 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130950823
- ISBN-13: 978-0130950826
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,822,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Visual Basic programmers who understand the Windows API can access all the functionality C and C++ programmers are accustomed to -- while still taking advantage of VB's extraordinary convenience and efficiency. This book gives VB programmers a complete guide to all of Windows API functions they need to supercharge their applications. In four opening chapters, developers can get "up-to-speed" on the relationship between VB and the Windows API, and how to extend VB programs with Windows API functionality. Then, the authors present a carefully-organized discussion of every Windows API VB developers are likely to need. They cover keyboard, input, timer, system information, system control and device context functions; scaling and coordinates, clipping and region functions; GDI drawing, attributes, bitmaps, icons, fonts, menus, dialogs, text, printing, files, memory, strings, control functions, and much more.
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Supercharge your VB code with the power of the Windows API!
Now you can leverage the full power of the Windows API - without sacrificing the simplicity, convenience and friendliness of Visual Basic! Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API is the complete guide to the 32-bit Windows API functions and programming techniques every Visual Basic developer should know.
You'll find...
- Practical explanations of the Windows APIs you need most.
- Techniques for calling functions and passing parameters
- Concise, complete examples for the most popular APIs.
- Invaluable coverage of fonts and bitmaps.
- Real insight about when to use the Windows API - and when not to.
- Includes easy-to-use reference to functions, structures and constants.
Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API gets you "up-to-speed" on interfacing VB and the Windows 32-bit API. You'll learn essential techniques for declaring API functions and passing information to them. You'll find practical guidance and live code examples for dozens of the most frequently used Windows APIs. Learn Windows API functions for managing keyboard and other inputs; the system timer; system control and the device context. Within the device context, you'll learn about scaling and coordinates, clipping and region functions. Discover powerful approaches to GDI drawing, attributes, bitmaps, icons, fonts, menus, dialogs, text, memory, strings and control functions, printing, files and more.
Ready to make your Visual Basic programs do more than ever before? You're ready for Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API!
CHRIS H. PAPPAS and WILLIAM H. MURRAY are Professors of Computer Science at the BCC Campus of the State University of New York, Binghamton. Over the past ten years, they have written over two dozen books about computer programming, covering topics including assembly language, Java, C/C++, Windows 95, Windows NT and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library. This is their third book involving Visual Basic programming.
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On the whole, very poor!
The book is padded from cover to cover with a dump of the API text file! No body in their right mind would type a long API declaration when they can copy it from the API viewer. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 1998
Still looking for a good API reference...
As someone new to VB programming & the API, I've found this text lacking. It is arbitrary about which API calls it describes. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 1998
Disappointed!
Half of this book is a soft cover print of the Declares, Constants, and Structures found in the API Viewer of VB. Read more
Published on 8 May 1998
Absolutely Fantastic !!
This book is a must have for any serious VB developer. Invaluable !!!
Published on 15 April 1998
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