Dan Appleman’s ~ Win32 API

[Chris]

juz curious to know, how many ppl over this forum got the Dan Appleman’s Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API?

Since. this is a good book and I plan to buy one for myself.

[zmerlinz]

i have this book and it is very good and if you are looking to purchase a vb book i would recommend this one highly

[chrisjk]

I have it because everyone says it is a "must-have" if you want to use API from VB.

It's good in that it means you can consult it rather than asking questions on here, but some bits are a bit heavy (for example the bit on screen reso i just skipped as soon as I saw it :D). There are pleanty of examples and a pretty good reference section. I think there is also an updated Win32api.txt on the CD (apparently there are many mistakes in the original one)

If you haven't already, check out the Review
(http://www.vb-world.net/books/danapi/).

It is pretty pricey though (US $60, UK £46.74)

[parksie]

You're right, there are a lot of mistakes in the supplied version :(

As I found out to my cost on many occasions, before I started using the API from C++ and actually worked out *** was going on :rolleyes:

I don't usually use books because there are plenty of websites with information and examples.