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Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic Harnessing the Full Power of VB/VB. NET

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ISBN-10: 0596001185

ISBN-13: 9780596001186

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stephen Teilhet

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"Subclassing & Hooking with Visual Basic offers developers a unique way to customize Windows behavior. Windows is a message-based system. Every action you request creates one or more messages to carry out the action. These messages are passed between objects and carry with them information that gives the recipient more detail on how to interpret and act upon the message. With Subclassing and the Windows hooking mechanism ("hooks"), you can manipulate, modify, or even discard messages bound for other objects within the operating system, in the process changing the way the system behaves. What kinds of results can you achieve using the power of subclassing and hooking? Here are just a few…    
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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 706
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.19" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Stephen Teilhet has been working with the .NET platform since the pre-alpha version of the.NET 1.0 framework was being developed by Microsoft. Currently he works for Ounce Labs where he is working on enhancing their static security code analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in several languages including C# and Visual Basic.

Preface
Introducing Subclassing and Hooking
Introduction
Subclassing
The Window Hooking Mechanism
Tools to Aid Us in Our Efforts
A Word of Warning
Windows System-Specific Information
Inside a Windows Application
Inside the Windows Messaging System
Performance Considerations
The Basics of Subclassing and Hooks
What Is Subclassing?
What Are Hooks?
Subclassing and Superclassing
Subclassing
The AddressOf Operator
Some Subclassing Tips
Instance Subclassing: An Example
Global Subclassing
Summary of Key Points in Subclassing
Subclassing the Windows Common Dialog Boxes
How Common Dialog Box Subclassing Works
Using the Resource
Creating the Subclassing Application
Subclassing Common Dialog Boxes Other Than Open and Save As
Problems Subclassing the Find and Replace Common Dialogs
ActiveX Controls and Subclassing
Subclassing a Third-Party ActiveX Control
Subclassing an ActiveX Control Created in VB
Subclassing a UserControl from Within a VB-Created ActiveX Control
Creating an ActiveX Control That Subclasses Other Windows
Superclassing
What Is Superclassing?
How the Superclassing Example Works
Peering into the Superclassing Application with Spy++
Debugging Techniques for Subclassing
Where to Start
Microsoft Tools
NuMega's SmartCheck
Hooking
WH_CALLWNDPROC
How WH_CALLWNDPROC Works
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_CALLWNDPROCRET
How WH_CALLWNDPROCRET Works
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_GETMESSAGE
How WH_GETMESSAGE Works
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_KEYBOARD and WH_KEYBOARD_LL
How Keyboard Messaging Operates
Description of Hooks
A Thread-Specific Example
A System-Wide Example
A Low-Level Hook Example
Caveats
WH_MOUSE and WH_MOUSE_LL
How Mouse Messaging Operates
Description of Hooks
Location of This Hook in the System
A Single-Thread Example
A System-Wide Hook Example
Caveats
WH_FOREGROUNDIDLE
Description
Location of This Hook in the System
Background Processing Example
Caveats
WH_MSGFILTER
Description
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_SYSMSGFILTER
Description
A System-Wide Example
Caveats
WH_SHELL
Description
Location of This Hook in the System
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_CBT
Description
A Thread-Specific Example
Caveats
WH_JOURNALRECORD
Description
The Macro Recorder Example
Caveats
WH_JOURNALPLAYBACK
Description
The Macro Recorder/Playback Example
Caveats
WH_DEBUG
Description
A Thread-Specific Example
Some WH_DEBUG Scenarios
Caveats
The .NET Platform
Subclassing .NET WinForms
What Is a WinForm?
Instance Subclassing
Subclassing a Control
Superclassing
Superclassing a Control
Intercepting Keystrokes in a WinForm
Behind the Scenes with Spy++
Implementing Hooks in VB.NET
Hooks and VB.NET
Delegates
Implementing the WH_KEYBOARD Hook
Implementing the WH_MOUSE Hook
Appendixes
Messages
API Functions
Structures and Constants
Index