When you call Windows API functions, they don't throw managed exceptions. Instead, you need to check their return values for any indication of an error, and take the appropriate actions, which might ...

It's a good book. Parts of it are really drawn out and boring, though. Once I was comfortable with using the Win32 API, I stopped reading the book and just looked up things on MSDN or in that book to ...

The MSDN documentation provides the details of Windows API functions and structures as C++ definitions. To make use of these, you need to be able to translate these definitions into VB.NET or C# ...