has anybody else read this book?

Beer

I once needed a snippet of shell code, so I checked on here and saw a reference to Wrox Press Windows Shell Programming, by Dino Espesito. This book was out of print, and hard to get, but I managed to get a slightly used copy from some guy in Washington from amazon.com indy sellers. At any rate, I'm half way through, and I believe it's the best shell programming book I've ever seen. Really insightful it is. My only complaint is that it was written with Windows 98 in mind. It doesn't outline the new Shell interface functions for NT/XP or the API. And the book doesn't seem to have been revised in the new EBook version wrox is selling. hey

Tom Archer

Yep. It's an extremely good book and my main reference when I first learned how to write shell extenions. His DHTML Scriplets book is very good as well. Cheers, Tom Archer, Inside C# Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

berndg

I agree it is a good book, but it must be read with extreme care for much of what it sais is outdated and obsolete AFAIK. You can still get it as PDF download (US$30, I think) from Wrox. Bernd

Michael Dunn

Good choice, that book is outstanding. --Mike-- THERE IS NO THERE IS NO BUT THERE IS MAGIC PIXIE DUST BUSINESS GENIE CODE PROJECT Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me

Ryan Binns

A very good book. I've got a copy. It only goes up to Win98 because it was written in 1998, so the fact that it does include Win98 is pretty good, I thought. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)

Tom Archer

That's a good point. It's been a very long time since I've read and used it. Cheers, Tom Archer, Inside C# Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

dabs

Yup, read it when I needed to write a namespace extension at work. It was very good but as you pointed out then it is a little bit old. I also read "Windows Shell Programming"[^] by Scott Seely[^] and it's also an excellent book. It uses ATL and templates a lot which is probably why I like that book better :-)

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