Indeholder "Acknowledgements", "Introduction", "1. The Spirit of Basic", " Language Purification", " While/Wend", " Gosub/Return", " Goto", " Exiting from Procedures", " Let", " Rem", " Option Base and Zero-Based Arrays", " For Next Loops", " Data Types", " A Short History of Basic Types", " Choosing a Data Style", " Visibility and Lifetime of Variables", " Naming Convention", " Basic Hungarian", " Efficient Code", " Compiled Code--Not a Panacea", " P-Code Versus Native Code", " Static Versus Dynamic-Link Libraries", " What You Don't Know Hurts You", " Examining Code", " The Time It Application", " Timing in Basic", " Short-Circuiting Logical Expressions: A Timing Example", " Assert Yourself", " Assert the Basic Way", " An Assertion Implementation", " Other Debug Messages", " Setting Debug Constants", " What to Assert", "2. The Second Level of Basic Enlightenment", " Never Write Another Damn Declare Statement", " What Is a Type Library?", " Rolling Your Own", " Calling the Windows API from Basic", " Anatomy of a Basic Procedure Call", " Anatomy of a DLL Procedure Call", " The API Contract", " Integer Parameters", " Pointers to Integers", " Large Integers and Currency", " User-Defined Types", " Arrays", " Typeless Variables", " Dealing with Strings", " Strings Inside Out", " Sending Strings to the Windows API", " Passing Null Pointers", " Wrapping String Functions", " Getting Strings from the Windows API", " Wrap It Up", " Unicode Versus Basic", " What Is Unicode?", " Unicode API Functions", " Dealing with Pointers", " Bring Your Hatchet", " Fixed-Length Strings in UDTs", " Variable-Length Strings in UDTs", " Other Pointers in UDTs", " Typeless Strings", " The Ultimate Hack: Procedure Pointers", " Limits of Procedure Pointers", " Enumerating Stuff", " Crash Testing", " Putting Procedure Pointers in Variables", " Strings in Callback Procedures", " FindAnyWindow", "3. An Object Way of Basic", " The Three Pillars", " Encapsulation", " Reusability", " Polymorphism", " Object-Oriented Anyway", " Object-Oriented Programming, Visual Basic Style", " Types", " Declaring Class Instances", " Initializing Objects", " Declarations with New", " Procedures Versus Methods", " More About Properties", " Where Do Objects Come From?", " Objects from CreateObject", " New Objects from Type Libraries", " ActiveX Control Objects", " Form Objects", " Class Objects", " Dual Interfaces and IDispatch", " First Class: CDrive", " Drive Design", " Test Drive", " Class Diagrams", " Implementing CDrive", " Other Class Features", " Static Members", " Friend Members", " Events", " The Form Class", " Polymorphism and Interfaces", " Interfaces", " Polymorphic Filters", " Variations on Implements and Polymorphism", "4. Collecting Objects", " A List of Link Objects", " A Link Class", " Using a List Class", " Using a List Iterator Class", " Implementing a List Class", " Implementing a List Iterator", " Back to CList for Iterators", " Vectors as Resizeable Arrays", " Using Vectors", " CVector Implementation", " Stacking Objects", " Using a Stack", " Implementing a Stack", " The Collection Class", " Collections 101--Data Storage", " Collections 201--Indexing", " What Makes a Collection Walk?", " Delegating a Collection", " Creating a Collection", " Variant Iterators", " Enumerating Variants", " Collection Wizard to the Rescue", "5. Functional Programming's Last Gasp", " Functional DLLs", " The VBCore Component", " Creating Global Procedures", " Creating Global Objects", " Developing for the Real World", " An Imaginary Real Project", " Developing Real Imaginary Projects", " What's Wrong with That?", " What Can You Do?", " When to Raise Errors", " How to Raise Errors", " Turning API Errors into Basic Errors", " Handling Errors in the Client", " Code Review", " The Program That Wouldn't Die", " StrSpan and StrBreak", " GetToken", " Trouble in Paradise", " Coding C in Basic", " Fastest Versus Safest", " Fixing the Windows API", " GetFullPathName", " SearchPath", " GetTempPath and GetTempFileName", " Hammering Bits", " Five Low Words", " Shifting Bits", " Reading and Writing Blobs", " Sorting, Shuffling, and Searching", " Recursive QuickSort", " Iterative QuickSort", " Sorting Different Types", " Comparing and Swapping", " The Helper Class Hack", " Shuffling", " Binary Search", "6. Taking Control of Windows", " WinWatch", " Elements of WinWatch", " All About Windows", " The Window Class", " Visual Basic Wrappers for Windows Functions", " Iterating Through Windows", " All About Programs", " System-Specific API Functions", " Processes, Modules, Top Windows, Instances, and Threads", " More About Handles and Process IDs", " Handling Multiple Instances", " Sending and Receiving Messages", " Sending Messages", " Receiving Messages", " Encapsulating Message Traps", "7. Painting Pictures", " Windows to Basic and Back Again", " Device Contexts and Canvas Objects", " Borrowing Device Context Handles", " Screen Capability", " Two Ways of Drawing", " The Basic Way of Drawing", " The Windows Way of Drawing", " Basic Windows Painting", " Picture Objects", " The Windows Way of Painting", " A Word About Blitting", " BitBlt Versus PaintPicture", " StretchBlt Versus PaintPicture", " The Bottom Line on PaintPicture", " All About ROPs", " Blitting Images onto Backgrounds", " Creating Masks", " Animating Pictures", " The Glass Picture", " Using CPictureGlass", " Inside the Glass", " Cleaning Up Glass", " Moving a Glass Object", " Other Properties and Methods", " The XPictureGlass Control", " Deal Me In", " Card Functions", " Timer Loops", " No Timer Control", " Animating Card Backs", "8. A Handle on Data", " Three Approaches to Data", " The Data Initialization Problem", " Initializing Local Variables", " Initializing Form Variables", " Initializing Class Objects and Internal Variables", " Initializing Standard Module Variables", " Using Your Own Resources", " Creating a Resource Script", " Anatomy of a Resource Block", " Compiling Resource Scripts", " Using Other People's Resources", " Stealing Your Own Resources", " Finding Resources", " Using Resources the Windows Way", " Using Data Resources", " Using Bitmaps", " Icons with an Attitude", " Using Cursors", " Using String Resources", " Using Sounds", " Using Version Data", " Using Other Resources", " Creating Your Own Resources", "9. Writing Code for the Ages", " Edwina and the XEditor Control", " The XEditor Control", " Edwina's Interface", " The XEditor Control", " Initialize It", " Name It Right", " Pass It On", " Replace It", " XEditor Extends RichTextBox", " The Dirty Bit", " Text and Rich Text Modes", " Undo Methods and Properties", " Status Methods and Properties", " Common Dialog Extensions", " The Windows/Basic Way of Implementing Common Dialogs", " Using Common Dialogs", " Implementing VBGetOpenFileName", " Find and Replace Extensions", " Designing Find and Replace Dialog Boxes", " Implementing the FSearch Form", " The XDropStack Control", " Using a Drop Stack", " XDropStack Calling XEditor", " The Keyboard Object", " Using the Keyboard Object", " Controlling the RichTextBox Insert State", " The CKeyboard Class Implementation", "10. COM Behind the Curtain", " The COM Vision", " COM Terminology", " COM From All Angles", " The Prime Number Server", " The Sieve Client", " A Functional Way of Prime Numbers", " An Object-Oriented Way of Prime Numbers", " The ActiveX DLL Way of Prime Numbers", " The ActiveX EXE Way of Prime Numbers", " The XSieve Control", " Behind the Scenes at the COM Factory", " The Name of the Class", " What You Don't Know", " Reference Counting and Not Reference Counting", " COM RAQs", " Interfaces Everywhere", " IShellLink--Shortcuts the Long Way", " Interface Type Libraries", " From CShellLink to CShortcut", " The CShortcut Class", " Registry Blues", " Registry Tools", " Registry Nodes and Items", " What to Write Where", " COM and the Registry", " The Windows Programs in the Registry", "11. Stir-Fry", " Everything You Always Wanted to Know About...", " Using the CAbout Class", " A Class Wrapping a Form", " A Form Wrapped by a Class", " Animating", " The CSystem Class and the System Object", " Sorting List Boxes", " Collection Methods and Properties", " Finding Items", " Sorted Collections", " Other People's Programs", " Using Shell", " Executive Privilege", " Character-Mode Sentenced to Execution", " The Executive's Mom", " Using ShellExecute", " Interprocess Communication", " Shared Memory Through Memory-Mapped Files", " Threads and Synchronization", " Where Angels Fear to Thread", " The Next Thread", " File Notification", " The Client Side of File Notification", " The Server Side of File Notification", " The New Look and Feel", " The 3-D Feel", " System Colors and Sizes", " More Interface Stuff", " Grid Boxes", " The CColorPicker Class", " The XColorPicker Control", " Bit Editors", " What Is a File?", " File Dates and Times", " Politically Correct File Operations", " Getting File Interface Information", " Walking Through Files", " Walking Through Folders", " Famous Explorers and Common Controls", " The ImageList Control", " The Toolbar and StatusBar Controls", " The TreeView Control", " The ListView Control", "Index".

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