win32utils devel - Sep 2007 - Windows programming books?

Hi all,

What do you all use for your Windows programming books? I''ve got
Jeffrey
Richter''s "Advanced Windows, 3rd edition", and it''s
pretty good, though
a little dated at this point.

Suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi,

2007/9/28, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What do you all use for your Windows programming books? I''ve got
Jeffrey
> Richter''s "Advanced Windows, 3rd edition", and
it''s pretty good, though
> a little dated at this point.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

How about Johnson M.Hart''s "Windows System Programming, 3rd
Edition"

and Charles Petzold''s "Programming Windows, 5th Edition"?

I have read the first and second edition.

Now, I don''t need a book any more for programming. My reference is
google
and MSDN.

Regards,

Park Heesob
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Hi Dan,

I have Richter''s book, but I don''t much like it.  In a number
of places, when
it starts discussing some concept, it makes a statement like "X always
behaves like Y".  But then, 10 or 20 pages later, in passing it says
"X doesn''t behave like Y in the case that...".

To me, this makes the book almost useless as a reference.  On more
than one occasion, I wanted to learn about X, so I looked it up,
found out that "X always behaves like Y", and wrote my code
accordingly.  It was only after my code didn''t work right that I read
further and found out there were exceptions or qualifications to the
above statement.

A book that I much prefer, that covers a similar set of topics, is
"Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98 and Windows 2000",
3rd ed, by Marshall Brain and Ron Reeves.    As the title implies,
this book is also a bit dated now.  (But the advantage of that is that
used copies are pretty cheap on Amazon.)

I also like John Robbins'' books on debugging.  Not only is debugging
a useful skill, but in explaining how to do really good debugging Robbins
often explains how parts of Windows works, or how to do certain things.

Depending on what I''m doing, I also find the following books useful:

Windows Internals, 4th ed by Russinovich and Solomon
Undocumented Windows NT by Dabak, et al.
Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets by Schreiber
Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference by Nebbett

I hope this helps!

Take care,

Wayne


On 9/27/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What do you all use for your Windows programming books? I''ve got
Jeffrey
> Richter''s "Advanced Windows, 3rd edition", and
it''s pretty good, though
> a little dated at this point.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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P.S.  Also "Windows NT Win32 API Superbible" by Richard J. Simon.
It''s again old (1997), but again used copies are pretty cheap on
Amazon.   And big parts of the Win32 API haven''t changed much since
1997.

It divides the API calls into 30 chapters by function, for example
"Memory Management" or "The Clipboard".   There are C code
snippets
(all also on the enclosed CD-ROM) showing how to call many of the
APIs.   The description of each API call isn''t nearly as detailed as
on MSDN (otherwise this book would be a lot longer than its 1500
pages), and sometimes they leave out important information.

But I find it amazingly helpful when I''m working in a given area to be
able to see all the API calls in one place.  Sometimes it''s also
convenient to use a book rather than going online.
But after I find what I''m looking for I usually double-check it on
MSDN.

Wayne