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Title: Essential Wininet: Developing Applications Using the Windows Internet API with RAS, ISAPI, ASP, & COM by Aaron Skonnard ISBN: 0-201-37936-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Overview with Examples
Comment: This book was laid out very nicely and covered all the topics a developer needs to know in order to create Internet-enabled applications. And I agree with the other reviewers that it may be the best book on WinInet (isn't it the ONLY book?), can be used as a reference guide, and the asynchronous section was insightful.
However, for a developer who is trying to take these APIs in a new direction (really do some hard-core ATL with C++) with COM, I found the book a bit lacking. [Admittedly, this book was focused on applications, not objects]. I needed more information about creating UI-less COM objects and perhaps I was looking for this book to do more than it claims. For example, the pre-IE5 WinInet API set doesn't support UNICODE and that information is key to C++ COM developers.
Definitive Guide? Not quite.
If you're looking to do some hard-core COM development with WinInet, I'd stick with the WinInet Reference on Microsoft's site, grab a good ATL reference and go from there (espeically if you're someone who can pick up a new, relatively small API set quickly. There's really nothing to WinInet).
If you're just using VB to create your COM objects or application, then this book is a good resource.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent primer on WinInet and it's various applications
Comment: Skonnard's book clearly explains the basics of using WinInet and provides useful examples that tie WinInet into other technologies that I use, such as COM, MFC and ASP. The author found a good balance between providing basic API details and contextual information for writing Internet client applications. Unlike some books that simply dive into the details with no context, this book contrasts WinInet with other options (e.g. Winsock), providing the right amount of context for real-world application development.
Rating: 4
Summary: Get the internet internals here
Comment: A handy book covering various aspects of the Internet protocols; sample application simple enough to illustrate the concepts.
If you want to learn WinInet programming, this will be a great start.
I bought this book while I had to research ISAPI but found coverage on ISAPI just adequate. Wish the author comes up with a second edition or print with more alternatives to ISAPI.
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Title: Multithreading Applications in Win32 : The Complete Guide to Threads by Jim Beveridge, Robert Wiener ISBN: 0201442345 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual C++ Isapi Programming by Michael Tracy ISBN: 1874416664 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0 by Andrew Troelsen ISBN: 1556227043 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (3rd Edition) by Marshall Brain, Ron Reeves ISBN: 0130225576 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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