Where to learn about API

[valkyrie]

Hi again,
I would like to ask if there are any good sites to visit for ppl who are just starting out with the API.

Thanks for your comments.

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[santulan]

hi...
1. There is API text viewer available with VB installation. This helps in understanding the exact syntax of functions.

2. There is a book called "WIndows Application Programming Interface" by TechMedia (If I recall it corerct).

3. There is lot of stuff available at "Codeguru" itself. Just search it.

4. Have patience.

Good Luck.



Santulan

[Ravi Kiran]

Best Place to learn about API is the book"Hard Core VB" by Dan Appleman ( I hope i am correct!).
You can also find sections of it on MSDN ON-line Books/Partial Books Section.
In there he describes how to map C-based Win APi to VB. That section is worth reading, understanding & implementing.

You should know good amout of Windows Programing itself. i dare add - not the MFC way, but WIN32 way!..

And For general Ref. MSDN is the best.

There are a couple of sites where they explain tips for how to map Win-APi to VB.

Last but not the least: Now a days lot of people post "Typelibraries" for basic windows dlls . Like on this site Lother was planning to post one for Win-inet dll. So if you can get one, just plug it into a project and off you go using those functions.

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As for patience.. Try.. if you fail try again.. if you fail try again...until either VB crashes or Windows reboots :-). Rest assured "former" is likely to happen often, and if you are having a particularly bad day, "later" is not too far off :-) People have re installed Windows, VB etc..

RK

[Leonid Shraybman]

There is a number of book by Dan Appleman. One of them is "Visual Basic 5.0 programmers guide to win32 API"
He explains there how to use API's and how to translate C/C++ functions into VB Declarations