Windows Nt Win32 Api Superbible

I have the Visual Basic 5.0 guide to Win32 by Daniel Appleman (which is incredible) and I was looking for a book to use as a general reference to WIN32 API calls as opposed to for VB, so I bought this book, and I think it is excellent!The first 3 chapters are: WINDOWS 95/NT programming, THE WIN32 API, and CREATING WINDOWS.That is pretty much 3 books in one right there!The chapters I think make this book so nice are the chapters on the Registry, File Decompression, Threads, Timers, System Information, a really good File IO chapter that discusses File locking, Creating Icons.The book is also hardback which I was surprised to see since the price was the same as the other books that aren't.I have some programming experience but I would consider myself intermediate and I think this book is perfect for me.I don't understand what the few people who wrote mediocre reviews were expecting, I would think that anyone who bought this book would know C or C++ already, and come on, reading this book won't teach you C++, but it will teach you to use API calls in your programs.I don't mean to sound so "gungho" about this book but I have over 30 books about programming and NT etc., but so far only 2 of them have actually been useful, this book and Daniel Appleman's book on VB and WIN32.I hate spending so much money on books I will never open again, so when a good one comes along I have to tell people about it.

By far THE BEST book to learn the API Calls and get your feet wet with the win32 API. I found Pinvoke to be problematic for me so I stepped back to the older method of doing things. I came from a VB3, VB6 and a VB 2010 background and have started picking up where I left off from back when. So far I've been able to write a few header files in a short amount of time and incorporate them into programs which either need extended support (where .Net falls short) or where VB falls short. I highly recommend this book! Some things may have been depreciated from the Win32 API times however, still a great starting point to learn.

Any serious programmer needs to have several win32 books in their collection.

If you want to get to the real meat of windows GUI programming or just want to learn windows functions, stuff like locking out the user or how to get the pc name, create files etc than this is a awesome book! i picked this up for $2 and im so glad i found it. This book may be old but its definitely not obsolete. The functions have remained the same over the years. However people rarely use win32 api any more due to its windows only architecture. However i highly recommend it if you know either c or c++.

I've been using this reference for years. Though I am not a programmer, per se, I do need to know what goes on under the hood. This book has been my resource on a great many occasions. In 30 chapters, author Simon covers the entire Win32 API with concise, reasonably comprehensive explanations of each function. Syntax for use is shown as well as flags, returns and other information necessary to understand the function. There are a lot of code examples, as well. A very readable, very usable reference on the Win32 API.Jerry

What else can be said about something that claims to be a superbible? It's name says it all: almost every API you could hope to want to see is in here, with hundreds of examples that are easily programmed by hand or cut-and-pasted with the source code on the CD. Basically you set up one program (given to you at the beginning of the book) and then all the examples follow programming a "case" statement for the TEST menu control that will execute. If you're looking for ODBC or DAO APIs, this book has none, nor any APIs that will help with Multimedia or Telephony. Even so, this is a fantastic reference to anyone still using APIs to do their programming (which, unlike MFC or COM or at least not until you have a lot of experience with it...and not using AppWizard, allows you to program exactly what you want, how you want it) this book will pay for itself the very first program you write using it. Highly recommended!

Overall, this book provides the reader with a good reference to the basic Win32 API's, and I use it frequently in my work. The sample code is good overall, although I have found a few examples that are in error. The biggest disapointment, however, is that the book completely omits a reference section for the Windows messages -- something that was included in the old Windows 3.1 API Bible and should have been in this one as well.

You can save your money, becuase no one needs such a book. This book contains very simple description of most popular API's. MSDN has same documentation and even better than this book. The book has poor explanation for every API comparing to the MSDN.

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