Applications Interface Programming Using Multiple Languages: A Windows® Programmer's Guide

1.2. How This Book Is Organized

This book can be used in a variety of ways, depending on your background and needs. For readers familiar with C/C++, Visual C++, or Visual Basic, you don't need to follow the step-by-step instructions given in each chapter to fulfill the project development; you can skip some details and go directly to the source code section. For beginners, you had better follow the detailed step-by-step instructions in each example to understand the whole project.

Now, let's examine how each chapter is organized. Chapter 2 discusses interface programming between Visual Basic and

• Window 32 API functions;

• a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) developed in Visual C++ 6.0;

• a database by using ADO;

• the Internet; and

• other Windows-based applications, ...