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Title: Excellent Book explaining the innards of The Windows Shell
Review: This is an excellent book on Windows 9x/NT Shell programming techniques which makes really good reading. The author takes us through each chapter, explaining minutia, undocumented features, pitfalls, pointing out bugs and workarounds all along the way. The book goes about explaining the innards of The Win32 Shell and Namespace Extensions and provides a lot of tips and tricks that can be accomplished using ATL/COM and the Windows Shell API. The author has done an excellent job of explaining the innards of the Windows Shell and how to put in Shell Hooks to get the most out of our Win32 applications. What is also good is the 'Further Reading' columns at the end of each chapter -- pointing the reader to related Knowledge Base Articles on MSDN, in addition to related articles on the subject from MSJ and MIND where possible.All the code has been written out using Visual C++ 6.0.
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