I read all the reviews here before i bought the book. Some of the reviewers said that the book was full of errors, though. Book isn't too big but it's easy to read and everything is said fluently.
I found out that most of the errors concern that accompanying CD holds examples written in DX6. At first try, i had 122 errors in the first programming example, and sweat started to push out. Solutions to amount of errors in this book was simple tough : i removed precompiled headers options (get rid of stdafx.cpp and stdafx.h's) and added windows.h, stdio.h and stdarg.h to the beginning of the code. Then you just make DX6 version clikers to match those in DX7 (like renaming LPDIRECTDRAW4 to LPDIRECTDRAW7) to make fluent code all the way. Now all examples compiled and work'd just fine (also pay attention to compiler settings in the first chapter).
Dunlop is an excellent writer. There aren't too many excersies at the end of each chapter (normally just two or three) but doing them makes you understand things essential in the next chapter. This book is great, thus it seems like SAMS put it out on the market in a little bit of a hurry. I hope this review helps those, whom have fought with the not-compiling examples .. i found out, that it's quite easily avoided.
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