Where to Go from Here

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For additional information about the subjects discussed in this chapter, see the following resources.

Windows API Reference

Microsoft Platform SDK, available free of charge through the Microsoft Developer Network Web site
http://msdn.microsoft.com.

Calling the Windows API from VBA

Appleman, Dan. Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API. Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1998.

O'Brien, Timothy, Steven Pogge, and Geoffrey White. Microsoft Access 97 Developer's Handbook. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1997.

Getz, Ken, and Mike Gilbert. Visual Basic Language Developer's Handbook. Alameda, CA: Sybex, 1999.

Bockmann, Christopher J., Lars Klander, and Lingyan Tang. Visual Basic Programmer's Library. Las Vegas, NV: Jamsa Press, 1998.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1998. (An online version of this book is included with Visual Basic 6.0 and is also available on the MSDN Online Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com.)

Code Samples

The code samples shown in this chapter, along with additional examples demonstrating similar techniques, can be copied from the files in the ODETools\V9\Samples\OPG\Samples\CH10 subfolder on the Office 2000 Developer CD-ROM.