Where to learn about API

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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The VB Bugs in my Life...

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

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

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