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Title: The secrets remain
Review: This is one of the most frustrating technical books I have ever read. It has an awful lot of good stuff in it but ultimately it fails miserably in what it tries to do. The problems are as follows:1. It can't decide whether it's a beginners guide or an expert reference book. As a result it is neither.2. It gives you all assistance short of help. Vital bits of information are missing from virtually all topics it covers. As an example: The section on Custom Dialog Boxes in chapter 3 has absolutely no mention of how to access the child control data which are of course the whole reason you would want to create a dialog in the first place. And the chapter on internet programming is a waste of good paper.
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