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C++ Windows Nt Programming

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This book just plain failed to deliver. It continually talked around the subject matter, always promising more detail later, but later never came. Many chapters and sections merely repeated what had been said before, or punted: the old 'outside the scope of book' dodge. It was touted as a programming book, but there was little in the way of code or theory, just a lot of general overview already available in a lot of other places; too many screen shots, frequent typos, and most damning: references to Win95 -- remember this is supposed to be about NT! I bought the book looking for NT specific programming topics, not a general introduction to the Visual C++ environment, or vague generalities about generic topics. My advice to the author and publisher: next time don't be in such a hurry to put something out that it shows

I totally agree with the previous reviewer's comments. There are a lot of typos. Demo program is not working on NT4. Jump over topic and never come back. Promise more but give less. No systematic way to explain C++ and NT. When talk about NT, it is a massy compilation of the existing material. The whole book is organized illogic and in a massy style. My advice to the reader, don't even look at it.