F.1. API Viewer

Microsoft Office 2000 and XP offered a Developer Edition that contained many resources specifically aimed at the developer. In versions prior to that, developer tools were packaged in a separate product called the Developer Toolkit. These products included a utility called the API Viewer, which provided detailed information about the Windows APIs, including function, type, and constant declarations. With the release of Office 2003, Microsoft provides the Developer Extensions Toolkit, which unfortunately, does not include the API Viewer (at least that's the case with the beta version I have). You can use the API Viewer from previous versions, or from Visual Basic 6.0.

Finding information about the API is difficult, especially detailed information about how to use it with Visual Basic. There are only two Win32 API viewers that we would recommend for download from the Internet, and at the time of writing, both of these viewers are free. There are probably others around, but we have found the following two to be the best:

Be advised that, as with many Web sites, you can never ...

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