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Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial
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Chapter Outline

• Introduction

Part I - The Puzzles

• In the Beginning - Part 1 Intro
• Puzzle #1 - Where Oh Where is that API Call?
• Puzzle #2 - The Last Error
• Puzzle #3 - Poly Want a Cracker?
• Puzzle #4 - It's all in the Name.
• Puzzle #5 – Finding the Executable
• Puzzle #6 – ICON Fix This One
• Puzzle #7 – Supercharged Graphics
• Puzzle #8 - Playing Leapfrog
• Feeling comfortable? - Intro to slightly more complex
• Puzzle #9 – Translating DEVMODE
• Puzzle #10 – Environmentally Speaking
• Puzzle #11 – Registry Games, Part I
• Puzzle #12 – Registry Games, Part II
• Puzzle #13 – Registry Games, Part III
• Puzzle #14 – Registry Games, Part IV
• Puzzle #15 – What TimeZone is it?
• Puzzle #16 - Serially Speaking
• In the groove - Advanced
• Puzzle #17 – The DEVMODE is in the Details
• Puzzle #18 – DT Phone Home
• Puzzle #19 - The RASDIALPARAMS structure
• Puzzle #20 – Making Connections
• Puzzle #21 - What is that Mapped Drive? Part 1
• Puzzle #22 – What is that Mapped Drive? Part 2
• Puzzle #23 – There is a Question in There Somewhere.
• Puzzle #24 - Callback That String
• OLE Smoke!
• Puzzle #25 – Universal Identifiers I
• Puzzle #26 – Universal Identifiers II
• Puzzle #27 – Universal Identifiers III
• Puzzle #28 – Drawing OLE Objects
• Rocket Science
• Puzzle #29 - What do you do when it mega hurts?
• Puzzle #30 - FileOperations I
• Puzzle #31 - FileOperation II
• Puzzle #32 – Animating Rectangles

Part II - The Solutions

• Solution for each of the puzzles in part I.

Part III - The Tutorials

• Tutorial 1 - Finding Functions
• Tutorial 2: Memory, where it all begins.
• Tutorial 3 - A Bool and its Bitfields are Soon Parted
• Tutorial 4: How DLL Calls work - Inside a stack frame
• Tutorial 5: The ByVal keyword - The solution to 90% of all API problems.
• Tutorial 6 - C++ Variables Meet Visual Basic
• Tutorial 7 - Classes, Structures and User Defined Types
• Tutorial 8 - Porting C header files
• Tutorial 9 - Inside A DLL File - Exploring the DumpInfo program.
• Tutorial 10 – A Case Study – The Service API
• Tutorial 11 – A Case Study – Reading the Event Log

Apendixes

• Appendix A – Hints
• Appendix B – FAQ
• Appendix C – APIGID32.DLL Reference