Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to TAPI (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Sells
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 612816
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0201634503
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.71268
UPC: 785342634501
EAN: 9780201634501
ASIN: 0201634503
Publication Date: June 27, 1999
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Product Description
A TAPI tutorial for the Windows C++ developer, including several applications and a C++ class library developed to make Windows telephony more accesible. The key audiences are Windows developers and telephony programmers.
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 Good Book September 9, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Its not a reference book so don't expect it to have everything on the subject. A good book though, you can read this book through and through. I judge such books on whether I get something useful out of reading them. No book and no writer is perfect, the technology being discussed in not perfect either, so try not to keep your hopes up.
Not everything in TAPI works!
But this books walks you through the TAPI programming taking a very easy to follow approach, you feel like you are ambling around amongst the concepts being discussed. I found the TSP discussed later in the book especially useful.
Reading it would be worth its while. An appreciable effort by the authors.
I'll add that I'm writing this review a long time after I bought the book as it was only recently that I read it. If some of the info in the book is obsolete, you cant really hold the author responsible for that. But this review is considering that.
Good Book for Experience C programmers August 23, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was forced into a postion at work where I needed to learn to work with TAPI very quickly. This book was a great help in my understanding how TAPI worked so I could develop a TAPI driver.
 High scores on a book well written November 6, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The "Developers Guide to TAPI" provides an introduction and selected advanced topics for the windows developer who is a TAPI novice. As a dyed in the wool "C" hacker, I found Mr. Sells C++ class library somewhat confusing, but this shortcoming is mine and not Mr. Sells.I believe that the technical material, examples and the method of presentation is a great deal more user friendly than much of the content of the MSDN library series to which I have been a subscriber and user.
 Save your money and read the Platform SDK instead October 12, 2001
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
OK, I'll be generous. This book might contain some useful information. I think the main benefit is that it's written in a more relaxed style than the Microsoft Platform SDK, and the author fills in the details a little better than Microsoft. Still, he misses a lot of important points, like (for instance) how to actually get something useful like a serial port file handle out of a telephone connection once it's established. But I give him an extra star for at least trying to write something helpful.Having said that, I think this is a horrible book for learning anything useful about TAPI. The author, for whatever obscure reason, decided to "wrap" the TAPI in his own proprietary C++ wrapper classes, which, according to him, are modeled on MFC. Oops! How are we going to learn to use TAPI from this book when all the examples use the author's pet TAPI classes? It isn't going to happen; at best we'll learn to use the author's version of TAPI, which "of course" (being sample code from a book and all) isn't nearly as powerful as the real thing. This brings me to my next point, which is that all the functions in this book that use realloc() have memory leaks, because the author and technical editor(s) apparently didn't realize that this function won't release a pre-existing memory block if it runs out of memory while it's expanding the block. This kind of sloppy coding irritates me to no end when it's in "sample code" that is likely to be unthinkingly copied by developers! So, in summary, what we have here is a book that theoretically shows developers how to use TAPI, but actually tries to show off Chris Sells' programming skillz. And since his class libraries are basically useless, what we have here is a book that shows developers nothing that the (free) Platform SDK could have shown us. Save your money for something useful!
A Great Book for TAPI Programming September 1, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well done on the author Chris Sells. A tiny simple book with huge complexity of coding on it. Great efforts in simplifiying many of the mysterious coding in TAPI- where Microsoft had missed. It's a gateway for further TAPI development for Pros. Good source of supports as well. Looking forwards for the author's next "TAPI 3.0 book" comming...
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