The Microsoft Windows 95 Developer S Guide

Today's PC users are looking for powerful, easy to use GUI applications that are fast, reliable and loaded with features. This book gives a great deal of attention to the user interface rules introduced by Windows 95 and the object-oriented interface. The CD-ROM contains sample codes, including the executable file, allowing readers to test all the samples.

This book explains how best to use the powerful features of Windows 95 in Win32-based applications, 16-bit Windows application, and MS-DOS-based applications. It also provides guidelines for developing virtual devices that support applications. Provided by members of the Microsoft Windows 95 technical team, this important information is not available anywhere else.

Discusses the latest in Microsoft's graphical user interfaces, considering the 32-bit system and software architecture, adapting older software to the new standards, software tips that can make programs run faster, and other issues. Original. (Intermediate).

Written by professional Windows game developers, this book offers comprehensive coverge of how to create distributable Windows 95 games. It explains all of the components of Microsoft's Windows 95 Game SDK extensively. The CD includes all the source code from the book as well as sample applications and demo software from the leading game development tools manufacturing companies.

To create programs for the Windows 95 or Windows NT operating systems, programmers need to know the art of 32-bit programming. Richter presents the first truly advanced book on programming for Windows that concentrates on advanced topics and advanced material on core topics, and provides a stepping stone to the next release of Microsoft Windows. Disk includes sample code and applications.

The Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit is an invaluable source for beginning and veteran Help authors, providing all the information and software needed to create online Help files for Windows 95 applications (also for earlier versions of Windows and for Windows NT version 3.51 or later). This comprehensive, easy-to-use kit is brought to you by the team that created online Help for Windows 95. The book is packed with valuable information that reflects hours of usability testing and research. The enclosed CD-ROM contains Help Workshop, formerly known as Help Compiler. Help Workshop introduces a new graphical user interface that makes creating and compiling Help files easier and faster than ever before.

This is the first look at Chicago and the effect it will have on the way people develop software. The book shows programmers how to use VxDs to their full advantage, and it includes a 3.5" high-density disk containing various utilities that allow programmers to look inside the Windows operating system.

Features tasks and commands in alphabetical order, step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow advice.