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Learning More about Windows |
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How do I learn more about Windows? |
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My book Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API is designed to teach Visual Basic programmers about the Windows operating systems by building on what you already know from Visual Basic. |
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There are many other books on Windows (including the online Microsoft documentation), but most of them are designed for C and C++ programmers. |
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How do I determine the operating system version? |
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See Puzzle 8, "Playing Leapfrog," in Part I of this book. |
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Where can I find out more about system locales? |
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See Puzzle 1, "Where, oh, Where Is That API Call?" in Part I of this book. |
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See Puzzle 24, "Callback That String." |
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See my book Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, Chapter 6. |
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Where can I find out more about Windows and the FindWindow function? |
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See Puzzle 2, "The Last Error," in Part I of this book. |
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See my book Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, Chapter 5. |
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Where can I find out more about device contexts and API drawing functions? |
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See Puzzle 3, "Poly Want a Cracker?" in Part I of this book. |
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See my book Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, Chapters 7 and 8. |
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