Dan Appleman's Win32 puzzle book and tutorial for Visual Basic programmers

• API puzzles offer real-world experience-the best way to learn
  
• Eleven tutorials teach even beginners the skills needed to solve the puzzles
  
• Puzzles range in difficulty from easy to complex to truly devious
  
• API techniques include registry, OLE, Remote Access, and more

Most Visual Basic Professionals Are Familiar with Dan Appleman's best-selling Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, which teaches VB programmers how to access more than 900 core Win32 API functions. In this new companion title, Appleman teaches you the skills you need to use the 7500+ other API functions. You'll learn how to interpret the Microsoft documentation and create declarations for even the most complex functions.

Appleman's unique puzzle format includes 32 sample programs that almost-but don't quite-work. Each puzzle has a solution with an in-depth explanation of the problem, why it occurs, and why the solution works. By avoiding the usual dry "lecture" style so common in technical books, this book will keep you awake-in fact, some of the puzzles may keep you awake nights searching for a solution. And when you've finished, you'll have an understanding of the technology that will qualify you as a true API guru.

With a writing style that combines technical competence, humor, and a bit of "attitude," Appleman proves once again that learning advanced technology can (and should) be fun.

CD-ROM CONTAINS:

• Sample code for all puzzles, solutions, and utorials
  
• Visual Basic 6.0- and 5.0-compatible source code
  
• An API function database and search utility that makes it easy to find and insert function, type, and constant declarations into your VB application
  
• A 30-minute video presentation by the author from VBITS '98 at Orlando about books, Desaware,
  and the life of a programmer