Amazon.com Review
For programmers, Chen and Berry have created an excellent introduction to the Windows NT 4.0 Registry in Windows NT Registry Guide. Lacking a complete catalog of keys, this book's value lies instead in its exhaustive documentation of the Registry API and its examples--included on a companion disk--of accessing and modifying Registry information in Visual Basic and C++ programs, including ActiveX controls. The authors begin with the obligatory explanation of the Registry's functions and documentation of Registry Editor. They quickly move on to provide a full documentation of the Registry API, a helpful tool unfortunately marred by unclear organization. Still, this book partially redeems itself with its discussions of Registry- accessing programs in both C++ and Visual Basic and documentation of the Registry entries related to NT's Internet Information Server (IIS) and ActiveX controls.
Product Description
The Windows NT Registry Guide will provide you with guidelines for accessing, maintaining, and utilizing the Registry. The first part of this book explains how to edit the Registry as well as how to program to it. The second part of the book unveils the mysterious information stored in the Registry and how that information affects your application development. It covers the Registry's role in relation to a number of emerging technologies you will be using (if you aren't already), including DCOM and ActiveX.
