Visual Basic Programming With the Windows API - Softcover

Pappas, Chris H.; Murray, William H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130950823 ISBN 13: 9780130950826

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

Extend your VB programs with the full power of the Windows API!-- Comprehensive explanations of the Windows APIs Visual Basic programmers need most.-- Concise, complete programming examples for every API covered.-- Learn when to use built-in VB functions, and when to use Windows API functions.Visual Basic programmers who understand the Windows API can access all the functionality C and C++ programmers are accustomed to -- while still taking advantage of VB's extraordinary convenience and efficiency. This book gives VB programmers a complete guide to all of Windows API functions they need to supercharge their applications. In four opening chapters, developers can get "up-to-speed" on the relationship between VB and the Windows API, and how to extend VB programs with Windows API functionality. Then, the authors present a carefully-organized discussion of every Windows API VB developers are likely to need. They cover keyboard, input, timer, system information, system control and device context functions; scaling and coordinates, clipping and region functions; GDI drawing, attributes, bitmaps, icons, fonts, menus, dialogs, text, printing, files, memory, strings, control functions, and much more.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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Supercharge your VB code with the power of the Windows API!

Now you can leverage the full power of the Windows API - without sacrificing the simplicity, convenience and friendliness of Visual Basic! Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API is the complete guide to the 32-bit Windows API functions and programming techniques every Visual Basic developer should know.

You'll find...

• Practical explanations of the Windows APIs you need most.
• Techniques for calling functions and passing parameters
• Concise, complete examples for the most popular APIs.
• Invaluable coverage of fonts and bitmaps.
• Real insight about when to use the Windows API - and when not to.
• Includes easy-to-use reference to functions, structures and constants.

Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API gets you "up-to-speed" on interfacing VB and the Windows 32-bit API. You'll learn essential techniques for declaring API functions and passing information to them. You'll find practical guidance and live code examples for dozens of the most frequently used Windows APIs. Learn Windows API functions for managing keyboard and other inputs; the system timer; system control and the device context. Within the device context, you'll learn about scaling and coordinates, clipping and region functions. Discover powerful approaches to GDI drawing, attributes, bitmaps, icons, fonts, menus, dialogs, text, memory, strings and control functions, printing, files and more.

Ready to make your Visual Basic programs do more than ever before? You're ready for Visual Basic Programming with the Windows API!

CHRIS H. PAPPAS and WILLIAM H. MURRAY are Professors of Computer Science at the BCC Campus of the State University of New York, Binghamton. Over the past ten years, they have written over two dozen books about computer programming, covering topics including assembly language, Java, C/C++, Windows 95, Windows NT and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library. This is their third book involving Visual Basic programming.

Synopsis

Visual Basic programmers who understand the Windows API can access all the functionality C and C++ programmers are accustomed to -- while still taking advantage of VB's extraordinary convenience and efficiency. This book gives VB programmers a complete guide to all of Windows API functions they need to supercharge their applications. In four opening chapters, developers can get "up-to-speed" on the relationship between VB and the Windows API, and how to extend VB programs with Windows API functionality. Then, the authors present a carefully-organized discussion of every Windows API VB developers are likely to need. They cover keyboard, input, timer, system information, system control and device context functions; scaling and coordinates, clipping and region functions; GDI drawing, attributes, bitmaps, icons, fonts, menus, dialogs, text, printing, files, memory, strings, control functions, and much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0130950823
• ISBN 13: 9780130950826
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 656