Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page iv The following information has been added to the copyright page |
"Cover Designer: Hanna Dyer" |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 15 In the fourth paragraph the second sentence used to read |
"These files have the extension EXE or DLL." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 18 |
The first line after the section heading "The Basics" used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 30 The second code line under "Case 3" used to read |
ByVal Var As Integer) |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 39 Last paragraph used to read |
"raise an API error" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 49 |
In the paragraph beginning "Thus, TCHAR and TBYTE" the last phrase used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 76-77 Entire section entitled "Converting Between Word Lengths" |
In the entire section entitled "Converting Between Word Lengths" there were five occurrences of the number "-5". All of |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 96 Just before the section head "Dealing with IN Parameters" |
the sentence that begins "First, let us talk about ..." has been deleted. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 96 In the second to last paragraph, the first sentence in this |
paragraph now reads: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 103 |
In the first line of the first code listing, it used to read |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 103 "(see Figure 6-8)" has been inserted after the word "lpsz" in |
the sentence "We create an initial BSTR string buffer for lpsz, say:" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 103 At the bottom of the page, the paragraph numbered "2." has been |
moved to follow Fig 6-8, and the reference to Figure 6-8 has been |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 103 The caption of Figure 6-8 has been changed to read |
"The Initial BSTR" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 104 Figure 6-9 has been moved to the top of the page. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 104 The caption for Figure 6-9 has been changed to read |
"The temporary ABSTR" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 104 In the paragraph numbered "3." the reference to Figure 6-9 |
has been changed to a reference to Figure 6-10. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 104 In the paragraph numbered "4." the words "As Figure 6-10 shows," |
at beginning of paragraph have been deleted. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 104 The paragraph numbered "4." has been moved to follow after |
Figure 6-10. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 119 In the last paragraph, the sentence used to read |
"For instance, the GetSystemDirector..." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 136 In the first paragraph in the section "A Complete Example," the |
following sentence has been added to the end of the para: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 163 The heading used to read |
"Getting a process handle..." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 166 The heading used to read |
"Module Filenames and..." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 169 The heading used to read |
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Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 169 The heading used to read |
"Getting the Process ID from a Window" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 170 The heading used to read |
"Getting Module names and Handles" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 179 The first paragraph has been replaced by |
"Note that, by comparing the memory maps for a process under |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 179 The last sentence on the page has been deleted. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 180 The first sentence has been replaced with |
"The first method is the simplest, but works only if the |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 184 After Example 11-5, the first sentence of the paragraph used |
to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 202 In the first paragraph in section entitled "Mutexes", the words |
"signaled" and "nonsignalled" were reversed. The paragraph now read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 242 In Figure 14-1, at the top of the figure under "PE Signature" |
the two "Ohs" in the boxes are now zeros. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 263 The first line used to |
"Microsoft Windows" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 317 In last line of first paragraph, the word "processing" is now |
"processes". |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 318 In the second to last paragraph, it used to read |
"In this case, all windows in the calling process only..." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 318 In the last paragraph, the third line used to read |
"new call" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 318 In the last line, it used to read |
"existing class" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 325 The first sentence of the second full paragraph used to read |
"On the other hand, if the thread is thread-specific..." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 334 The heading that used to read |
"basmRpiHook" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 |