Products Purchase Publishing Articles Support Company Contact |
Products > Books > COM > Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API > Edition History |
|||||||||||||||||
Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API Introduction Contents Updates Edition History Exploring VB6 (series) Developing COM/ActiveX Components with VB6: A Guide to the Perplexed Introduction Outline What's New from the VB 5.0 edition Updates Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial Introduction Chapter Outline Sample Puzzle Updates NT Security Programming with Visual Basic 6 Updates Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows 16 bit API
|
Note: This page describes a legacy product or book. The page is available for archival purposes and as a courtesy to those who have linked to it, but is no longer being updated or maintained.
Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
|
|
Please read the following important message before you purchase the latest edition of this book!
If you do not yet own any of the previous editions of this book, welcome! You are joining tens of thousands of Visual Basic programmers who have used it to learn to be better Visual Basic programmers by using the capabilities of the underlying operating system.
The current edition is the third edition of the original Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API. In that time, for various reasons, it has undergone two title changes, two ISBN number changes, a change in publisher (from Ziff-Davis Press to Macmillan), and a change in imprint (from ZD-Press to SAMS).
If you already have a copy of any of these editions, the following title information (listed from most current to oldest) should help you decide if it is worthwhile to buy this book.
Title/Description |
Changes from previous edition |
Available Jan 99 Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API - SAMS |
Despite the new cover, title, ISBN and imprint name, this is a reprint of the VB5 book. VB6 did not make significant changes to the way API functions are called. Click here for an explanation of why the changes were made. Do not buy this edition if you have the previous edition (of course, you can always buy this one and give your previous copy as a gift). |
Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API - ZD Press. |
This book included moderate changes to the previous edition. It includes two new chapters (only on the CD) including one on networking APIs and use of type libraries to access API functions. It includes separate source trees for VB4 and VB5. An upgrade CD (containing the full book text) is available from Desaware for those who do not feel the changes justify the purchase of a new book. |
PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API - ZD Press. |
The first 32 bit edition of the Win32 API book. This book only covers VB4. |
PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows API |
The original 16 bit book for programming the Windows API from VB3 and 16 bit VB4. Now available in a CD-ROM only edition directly from Desaware. |