Ed,
Since you do some system level programming, I'll ask you this.

Does Dan Appleman's book or any other provide good system/network VB examples for the Windows API. Most of the VB books I've seen are geared toward GUI and user related stuff. For example, to get examples of using the WNet functios, I bought a C++ book and translated. The MSDN library has some examples but again most of the network function examples are for C++.

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>The API text Viewer does define all of them, but you need to know the name of the message you want before you can use it. A good source of what messages are available is Dan Appleman's first VB API book, which includes a number of tables in the appendix that list the messages, their values, what they do, and what the wParam and lParam values for those messages do.
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>>Also, if you have VC++, you can look through the .H files. You might also try searching msdn.microsoft.com.
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>WINUSER.H lists the various Windows Message constants; it doesn't explain how to use them, which is why I keep telling people to buy Appleman's book...