"Windows 98 Programming Secrets" presents the information that software engineers need to develop full-featured, commercial-quality, mission-critical applications for the Windows 98 platform. The CD-ROM includes all source code and examples from the book including executable files and project files of the sample programs.

Here is 100% of what you need to develop killer Windows applications that fully exploit the hot new features of the Internet-savvy Windows 98 operating system. The CD-ROM includes all sample code and applications, as well as third-party tools.

This book and companion disk are designed for accomplished programmers who understand the Windows environment and want to optimize their files. The text will especially benefit tool developers, multimedia developers, and graphic tool developers.

Based on highly confidential interviews with personnel, internal memos, and top-secret company documents, this compelling portrait reveals the philosophy, style, and competitive strategies that have taken Microsoft to the heights of the high-tech industry.

Windows 98, the ballyhooed new Microsoft operating system, is finally here and the best-selling Windows author duo ? Brian Livingston and Davis Straub ? mark this momentous software release with their seminal guide, Windows 98 Secrets. Livingston and Straub divulge undocumented features and time-saving shortcuts designed to maximize your Windows 98 experience. Windows 98 Secrets explains how to connect directly to the Web using the Active Desktop, take advantage of dynamic communication advances, optimize new security options, tweak the registry, customize your desktop, and much more. You can also sample 200 Windows 98 software programs hand-picked by Livingston and Straub on the Windows 98 Secrets bonus CD-ROM. There is also a bevy of handy resources packed onto the CD including FTP clients, HTML editors, database managers, automation tools, and Internet suites. Thanks to Livingston and Straub, the Windows 98 wizard has been exposed and with Windows 98 Secrets, you can reap the rewards.

Comprehensive, self-paced guide filled with new options, and new features.

Learn the behind-the-scenes tricks and techniques that will take your Visual Basic skills to the next level of programming excellence. Davis provides all the secrets readers need to create sophisticated, robust, full-featured, commercial quality Visual Basic applications.