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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Try "Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows",
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This review is from: Advanced Windows (Paperback)
I believe "Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows" is the fourth edition to this book. The Microsoft Press summary for the new book says "This fully updated expansion of the bestselling ADVANCED WINDOWS digs even deeper into the advanced features..."Also compare the table of contents between the two books for yourself. I am buying "Programming Applications" instead of this book.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book on the Win32 API.,
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This review is from: Advanced Windows (Paperback)
Before reading this book I had a good grasp of C++ but didn't know much of the Win32 API except some of the function names I was really interested in. After sitting down for 2 - 3 weeks with the MSDN Library, Visual C++ and Advanced Windows I now have a firm grasp of most concepts. This book does not go into GUI development at all. I would recommend Programming Windows Fifth Edition for this. Since most of the code I write is for the backend (DLLs, Databases) my prefered GUI is always a web application so this was very desirable for me. If you want MFC you should probably get the Microsoft Mastering series title. If you want GUI get Programming Windows Fifth Edition. If you want hard core, Win32... GET THIS BOOK!
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Two essential books: Petzold's and this book.,
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This review is from: Advanced Windows (Paperback)
For UNIX, you buy W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and UNIX Network Programming -- for Win32 you buy Programming Windows by Charles Petzold and this book. Petzold gets you started, Richter lets you pursue the good stuff.Although this is easily a 5 star book, it is not without room for improvement. For the 4th edition, Mr. Richter, I'd like to see Anonymous and Named Pipes covered, as well as Mailslots, and some introductory coverage of Winsock (Winsock could be covered in a separate book.) It's a bit surprising that those topics aren't covered, since just about every advanced topic I was looking for was covered in excellent detail. To be in the same class as Stevens' books, I'd like to see some performance considerations included. For example, how much more expensive is a Mutex over Critical Sections and Events? Ralph Davis' book, Win32 Network Programming, covers this a little better, and includes quite a bit of discussion on advanced Win32 topics besides the networking APIs. And lastly, a hard-bound edition would be nice.
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