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Summary: The Biblical Epic of Win32 Perl Programming
Review: All I can say about this book, is that when I teach Perl courses for Learning Tree, I always take out about five minutes from the course to thoroughly recommend this book to all of our NT administrators, other users of Win32 Perl and anyone else who happens to be in the vicinity. I've found it absolutely essential in the last year or so, on many occasions, and carry it with me on every assigment, come rain, snow or shine, along with "Advanced Perl", "The Perl Cookbook" and "Programming Perl". I use it as more of a reference, than as a tutorial, but basically it's a lifesaver. Recommendation: Buy.
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Summary: Bring the power of Perl to Win32 systems
Review: Designed to provide in-depth documentation on the Windows-specific functionality in Perl, "Win32 Perl Programming:The Standard Extensions" is the ideal resource for system administrators, network administrators, and programmers who want to employ the Perl language in their Windows NT or 95 network. Intended for intermediate to advanced-level users, this guide includes:-Critical information on program automation covering OLE and COM object management -Thorough coverage of communication-oriented procedures -Detailed guidelines for data access with ODBC including routine operations, advanced features, and troubleshooting fixes -Hard-to-find information on extension and function syntax, Win32::ODBC function constants, and Win32 network error descriptions -Numerous proven scripts ready for use
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Summary: Indispensable reference
Review: I agree that there are a few typos - but as other reviews have pointed out, most are obvious. In addition, you won't find more clear or concise examples of how to use the Win32 extensions. The first 3 hours I had the book clarified at least a dozen of the things I had been trying to "learn" from examples on the web. Like I said, if NT admin and perl are your things - you need this book!
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Summary: Indispensable reference
Review: I bought this book simply because no other book addresses the use of Automation(OLE) from within Perl in as much detail. The O'Reilly "Learning Perl on Win32" has a small chapter but doesn't give as much detail or examples as this book does. Much to my delight after I was finished with this section, the other sections that deal with processes and writing your own extensions were immensely helpful. The custom extension section contains detailed explanation and coverage of many pitfalls that the author has obviously painfully discovered over time. This is definitely worth having on your shelf if you're using Perl on Win32!
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Summary: A great resource for the Win32 platform
Review: I bought this book simply because no other book addresses the use of Automation(OLE) from within Perl in as much detail. The O'Reilly "Learning Perl on Win32" has a small chapter but doesn't give as much detail or examples as this book does. Much to my delight after I was finished with this section, the other sections that deal with processes and writing your own extensions were immensely helpful. The custom extension section contains detailed explanation and coverage of many pitfalls that the author has obviously painfully discovered over time. This is definitely worth having on your shelf if you're using Perl on Win32!
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Summary: a practical guide
Review: I found only a few books dealing with the WIN32 extensions of PERL and after reading only parts of the book I am already impressed since this is not some theoretical book like many others but also deals with an overview about perl and how it's extensions in general work. He explains and lists the most common tasks like network administration, OLE, data access and so on. I didn't know PERL was able to accomplish so many goals when used with Windows NT. Looks better than O'REILLYs "Learning PERL on WIN32 systems" to me ... So: Forget ASP - Go PERL !
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: I was pretty excited to see a dedicated treatment of Perl on Windows (Learning on Win32 systems doesn't quite cut the mustard) and bought this book. However, after finding 4 or 5 typos within the first 40 pages I decided it wasn't worth the investment. Many were pretty obvious (examples for gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr both used gethostbyaddr (or maybe it was vice versa)) but this many syntax typos this early in the book made me return the book. This is the right track but I'm going to wait for the second edition.
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Summary: ODBC
Review: I would how to have the result of a request in a Web Pag
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Summary: A must-have in your Perl library
Review: If you are doing Windows programming, and you've been suffering through trying to figure out how to enumerate the machines and users in your domain(s), change passwords, gather accounting information, etc., then you MUST have this book. And you should probably book mark the author's homepage,..., as it has a slew of programs and utilities.
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Summary: Best yet, but still lacking
Review: It definitely goes well beyond the O'Reilly "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" book. However as other people have mentioned ther are numerous errors in it. An example of an error is the fact that it claims that DeleteKey will delete subkeys if there are any. I must however admit that I still do use this book and am glad I have it.
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