Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic |  | Author: Stephen Teilhet
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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ISBN: 0596001185
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Publication Date: May 15, 2001
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With Subclassing and the Windows hooking mechanism ("hooks"), you can manipulate, modify, or even discard messages bound for other objects within the operating system, in the process changing the way in which the system behaves. Along with this power comes responsibility; Windows is very unforgiving if subclassing and hooking techniques are used incorrectly. Subclassing & Hooking with Visual Basic demonstrates how to use the various techniques that deal with the interception of messages bound for one or more windows or controls: you can leave the intercepted message in its original state or modify it; afterwards, you can send the message to its original destination or discard it. For both VB 6 and VB.NET developers, this book opens up a wealth of possibilities that ordinarily would be completely unavailable, or at least not easy to implement.
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 All of the basic techniques are revealed and a lot more August 11, 2001
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In Subclassing & Hooking With Visual Basic, computer expert Stephen Teilhet explains that Windows is essentially a messaging system and that every user action creates one or more messages to carry out a communication. In addition to generating the message for the mouse button click, the action produces a wide array of other messages, including messages to repaint the button in its depressed state, determine the state of the mouse cursor, and others. Subclassing and the Windows hooking mechanisms are very powerful techniques that operate on messages within the Windows messaging system and Teilhet succinctly explains and illustrates the power that subclassing and hooking give developers in controlling or manipulating messages to achieve a desired result. All of the basic techniques are revealed and a lot more besides. Subclassing & Hooking With Visual Basic is especially recommended for VB and VB.NET developers, but will also prove invaluable for C/C++, Managed C++, C#, and Delphi users.
A very good book for learning subclassing and hooking September 1, 2003
What can I say, this is a great book.
Disadvantage is that hooking & subclassing degrades system performance.
 Finally... July 26, 2001
Vasilis Ioannidis (Athens, Attica Greece)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
a great book about subclassing and the actions you can achieve using vb and not c++. Helped me built customized apps for certain strict environments in no-time. Good work!
Lot's of info in this book November 6, 2004
William Moeur (Silicon Valley)
This book is a very comprehensive explanation of what you can do from Visual Basic with regards to subclassing and hooking. My only complaints are that it's a little wordy and redundant in points and that it doesn't venture into areas that cannot be handled with VB alone.
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