Customer Review: This book is the best of the kind.
With 1000+ pages, this book is a very broad and deep interview of windows graphics system. This book is for advanced developers. It does not teach you hand by hand how to draw a text, how to draw a window..., instead, this book is for the person who want to... more info
Customer Review: This was just what I needed to develop a special VBA program with Access. The Win32 API's let you get a little closer to the Window operating system than most standard languages.
Customer Review: A beginners guide to multi-threading on WIN32. Experienced developers might find it useful to quickly skim through this book to see if there is anything that they didn't already know, but for the most part anyone with significant experience should find a different book. The language used in the... more info
Customer Review: Lotsa of projects to help in understanding Win32.
I compiled projects with VS 2005 and plan to try
others. Some tutorials like Forger's win32 would
definitly help before you approach this book.
Customer Review: If your looking to automate tasks on windows, and don't want to learn VBScript, this book is great for someone familiar with perl programming.
Customer Review: If you are doing .NET -> Native interop., this book should pretty have almost all that you need. Note that it does not cover COM (RCW) interop in that much detail and does not talk about CCW (COM -> .NET). However, the coverage of MarshalAs() and the clever examples that show how to deal with the... more info
Customer Review: While this book is old and maybe showing it's age on some topics (and perhaps missing some new technologies) it summarizes and explains lots of stuff. For example, you may know how to use OLE/COM but the Automation chapter explains the terminology and what are all this objects are doing behind the... more info
Customer Review: Even though title suggests it is 'modern multithreading', this book reiterates typical multithreading issues. However subjects addressed are not presented well enough and code snippets are not explained properly.
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