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[ahsan16]

if you are a beginner or an intermediate who is hearing about API , this program is a good deal , u can learn APi very easily with this tutorial , This may be considred as a libraray for API ( Application Programming Interface) . It contains more than 30 declaration and functions that do the following:
1) shut down/restart / log off ur windows.
2) show/hide curor ,
3) open web browser . (CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News)
4) empty your recycle bin.
5) toogle the caps lock .
6) make the desktop's wallpaper the picture of the active form,
7) change the mouse configuration.(switch the primary and secondary button i.e. make right button or the left one the primary)
8) minimize , maximize , set to normal size your form.
9)open/close your cd -tray.
10)change the wallpaper ,
11) delete a file using API .
12) save the active window's image to file.
13)save the whole screen's image to a bitamp file ,
14) play sound .
15) get the path of the folder of your "windows"
16) get the path of the folder of your windows' system
17)desktop
18)my pictures.
19)my documents.
20)cookies, start menu , recent , and other thirty (30) of that , please check them out ,
21) get information about all the drives i. please see that , don't forget to send comments.

[AfTriX]

Is "API for Beginners" a program? I don't understand anything!..

[AcroneShadow]

yea i dont get it either

[Zizooooo]

Well API stands fOR Application Programming Interface and these are a group of ready compiled functions stored in certain files called Dll files and you can call these functions from Visual basic by declaring them to do some jobs for u as mentioned by ahsan16 and I hope he will explain.......

[mendim.]

after these
15) get the path of the folder of your "windows"
16) get the path of the folder of your windows' system
17)desktop

are hidden links , but h copied it illegaly :P lol aahhah

[sdavis2702]

This thread is kind of old lol. I don't really see him coming back and explaining anything. I think I know what he was getting at though.

[XStatik]

I think he was trying to explain how and where to use some different API's and what an API actually is to the beginner programmer. Seems he didn't follow up with the rest of the tutorial though.