Programming Industrial Strength Windows with CDROM [Paperback]

Petter Hesselberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2000

This text presents a process of design and implementation to ensure the development of production-quality applications, which are capable of running on any Windows version, including Windows 2000. The book is comprehensive, and details drag-and-drop, shell integration and installation.

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About the Author

Petter Hesselberg is a partner with Accenture in Oslo, Norway. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He has been programming Windows for over thirteen years, seven of which he was partner in a firm exclusively devoted to Windows programming. He writes the monthly "User Interface Programming" column for Windows Developer's Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Publishers Group West (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087930605X
• ISBN-13: 978-0879306052
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,261,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Gates should get this book, February 24, 2000

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Kjell Jarle Furnes (Stabekk, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Industrial Strength Windows with CDROM (Paperback)

This book contains a lot of detail about how a complete Windows application fits together, and it includes some information that I haven't seen anywhere else. (I never knew how complex the command line could be.)

There is only one chapter explicitly devoted to exceptions, but there is something about robust programming in almost all the chapters: Designing exception-safe wrapper classes for various resources, for example, not to mention designing the conceptual model of the user interface so that errors go away. (I think it's the first time I've seen a book that can both say something sensible about usability and show you how to implement it at the same time. I loved the design of the Find dialog.)

The most important thing I learned from this book was how little error-handling code you can get away with if the error-handling architecture is properly designed. (Well, not exactly "little", but at least the error-handling code is mostly divorced from the functional code.) I highly recommend this book to all Windows programmers, unless you are a beginner, in which case you should read something else first. Read this afterwards.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good info, but padded with listings, February 8, 2000

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Michael Erickson (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming Industrial Strength Windows with CDROM (Paperback)

Some good info on overall app design and the little things it takes to make an app complete and slick, but maybe 2/3 of the book is nothing but code listings. Between pages 150-200 there are about 10 pages of actual text that isn't part of a code listing, for example. Code listings can be very useful -- especially in a book like this -- but the inclusion of such things as 1 line inlines and forwarding funcions doesn't add much value for the forty bucks I had to lay out.

The description of the book mentions error handling right off but I didn't find in the book a very substantive discussion of this topic. Chapter 6 was devoted to exceptions and error handling, and there was some useful info, but the entire chapter only contained 6 pages of discussion. The rest was code. Again, don't get me wrong. Code listings can be useful. It's just my opinion that this book went beyond the point of diminishing returns in printing so many pages of them.

The description also mentions Win32 API programming, but if you want a book on that you should stick to Petzold or Win32 Programming by Rector and Newcomer.

This book has some very good advice that is hard to find elsewhere. I would have liked more of that in the book. Leave the inlines and macros on the CD.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent programming techniques to write robust code, February 15, 2000

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Trond Arve Wasskog (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Industrial Strength Windows with CDROM (Paperback)

This book contains some very good hints, tips and techniques to write robust code. In addition, the author's language is entertaining, making the book fun to read(!) On the downside, the code listings get boring; you could easily print them out yourself...