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Title: Windows Telephony Programming by Chris Sells ISBN: 0-201-63450-3 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 17 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: High scores on a book well written
Comment: The "Developers Guide to TAPI" provides an introduction and selected advanced topics for the windows developer who is a TAPI novice. As a dyed in the wool "C" hacker, I found Mr. Sells C++ class library somewhat confusing, but this shortcoming is mine and not Mr. Sells.
I believe that the technical material, examples and the method of presentation is a great deal more user friendly than much of the content of the MSDN library series to which I have been a subscriber and user.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book for TAPI Programming
Comment: Well done on the author Chris Sells.
A tiny simple book with huge complexity of coding on it. Great efforts in simplifiying many of the mysterious coding in TAPI- where Microsoft had missed. It's a gateway for further TAPI development for Pros. Good source of supports as well.
Looking forwards for the author's next "TAPI 3.0 book" comming...
Rating: 2
Summary: Save your money and read the Platform SDK instead
Comment: OK, I'll be generous. This book might contain some useful information. I think the main benefit is that it's written in a more relaxed style than the Microsoft Platform SDK, and the author fills in the details a little better than Microsoft. Still, he misses a lot of important points, like (for instance) how to actually get something useful like a serial port file handle out of a telephone connection once it's established. But I give him an extra star for at least trying to write something helpful.
Having said that, I think this is a horrible book for learning anything useful about TAPI. The author, for whatever obscure reason, decided to "wrap" the TAPI in his own proprietary C++ wrapper classes, which, according to him, are modeled on MFC. Oops! How are we going to learn to use TAPI from this book when all the examples use the author's pet TAPI classes? It isn't going to happen; at best we'll learn to use the author's version of TAPI, which "of course" (being sample code from a book and all) isn't nearly as powerful as the real thing. This brings me to my next point, which is that all the functions in this book that use realloc() have memory leaks, because the author and technical editor(s) apparently didn't realize that this function won't release a pre-existing memory block if it runs out of memory while it's expanding the block. This kind of sloppy coding irritates me to no end when it's in "sample code" that is likely to be unthinkingly copied by developers!
So, in summary, what we have here is a book that theoretically shows developers how to use TAPI, but actually tries to show off Chris Sells' programming skillz. And since his class libraries are basically useless, what we have here is a book that shows developers nothing that the (free) Platform SDK could have shown us. Save your money for something useful!
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Title: Essential JTAPI by Spencer Roberts ISBN: 013080360X Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Computer Telephony Demystified by Michael Bayer ISBN: 0071359877 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 11 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Mapi, Sapi, and Tapi: Developer's Guide by Michael C. Amundsen ISBN: 0672309289 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: PBX Systems for IP Telephony by Allan Sulkin ISBN: 0071375686 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold ISBN: 157231995X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 11 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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