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Title: Excellent book to get you started actually doing it.
Review: While Appleman's book continues to be the definitive =reference= book. This book offers some real world examples of how to use the Win32 API to not only do things that you can't do with VB intrinsic commands and controls, but also to subtantially boost the performance of things you could do with regular VB. Specific examples are worked through and type conversions are explained within this context.I'd recommend it to anyone that's thinking the API might have something more to offer than current directory information (they'd be right).I wouldn't use every example in real life, but there are plenty I would use, and all are excellent examples of what can be done.DISCLAIMER: I was a technical reviewer on this book, and, as such, am somewhat tied to Wrox and the quality of the end product. Rest assured, however, that I don't get any perks from this review, and the opinion is mine and mine alone.Rob Vieira, MCSD, MCT
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