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Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial
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Chapter Outline
Learn to handle any API call from VB6
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Part I - The Puzzles
- In the Beginning - Part 1 Intro
- Puzzle #1 - Where Oh Where is that API Call?
- Puzzle #2 - The Last Error
- Puzzle #3 - Poly Want a Cracker?
- Puzzle #4 - It's all in the Name.
- Puzzle #5 – Finding the Executable
- Puzzle #6 – ICON Fix This One
- Puzzle #7 – Supercharged Graphics
- Puzzle #8 - Playing Leapfrog
- Feeling comfortable? - Intro to slightly more complex
- Puzzle #9 – Translating DEVMODE
- Puzzle #10 – Environmentally Speaking
- Puzzle #11 – Registry Games, Part I
- Puzzle #12 – Registry Games, Part II
- Puzzle #13 – Registry Games, Part III
- Puzzle #14 – Registry Games, Part IV
- Puzzle #15 – What TimeZone is it?
- Puzzle #16 - Serially Speaking
- In the groove - Advanced
- Puzzle #17 – The DEVMODE is in the Details
- Puzzle #18 – DT Phone Home
- Puzzle #19 - The RASDIALPARAMS structure
- Puzzle #20 – Making Connections
- Puzzle #21 - What is that Mapped Drive? Part 1
- Puzzle #22 – What is that Mapped Drive? Part 2
- Puzzle #23 – There is a Question in There Somewhere.
- Puzzle #24 - Callback That String
- OLE Smoke!
- Puzzle #25 – Universal Identifiers I
- Puzzle #26 – Universal Identifiers II
- Puzzle #27 – Universal Identifiers III
- Puzzle #28 – Drawing OLE Objects
- Rocket Science
- Puzzle #29 - What do you do when it mega hurts?
- Puzzle #30 - FileOperations I
- Puzzle #31 - FileOperation II
- Puzzle #32 – Animating Rectangles
Part II - The Solutions
- Solution for each of the puzzles in part I.
Part III - The Tutorials
- Tutorial 1 - Finding Functions
- Tutorial 2: Memory, where it all begins.
- Tutorial 3 - A Bool and its Bitfields are Soon Parted
- Tutorial 4: How DLL Calls work - Inside a stack frame
- Tutorial 5: The ByVal keyword - The solution to 90% of all API problems.
- Tutorial 6 - C++ Variables Meet Visual Basic
- Tutorial 7 - Classes, Structures and User Defined Types
- Tutorial 8 - Porting C header files
- Tutorial 9 - Inside A DLL File - Exploring the DumpInfo program.
- Tutorial 10 – A Case Study – The Service API
- Tutorial 11 – A Case Study – Reading the Event Log
Apendixes
- Appendix A – Hints
- Appendix B – FAQ
- Appendix C – APIGID32.DLL Reference
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