Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to TAPI

Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to TAPI offers C++ programmers a clear and concise tutorial to Windows Telephony that significantly reduces TAPI's steep learning curve. TAPI is an API that has standardized the interface between computers and telephony hardware. Included with Windows 9x and Windows NT, TAPI is a major element of the Windows communications backbone. Despite its growing importance, TAPI may still be very daunting and difficult to master.

The author makes TAPI more accessible by revealing its underlying architecture and rationale and by relating its functions and features to specific tasks developers seek to accomplish in their applications such as making, answering, and monitoring calls, handling modem data, and building an answering machine.

In addition to carefully developed, intuitive explanations, Windows Telephony Programming features numerous real-world examples of how actual TAPI programs are built, and a comprehensive C++ class library that takes much of the grunt work out of TAPI programming. The author also discusses building a telephony service provider and includes a complete working example.

Completely up-to-date, this book covers TAPI versions 1.x to 2.0, and offers a glimpse into the future of telephony with a preview of the new TAPI 3.0 incorporated into Windows NT 5.0. To exploit the power of TAPI 3.0 when it becomes available, it is imperative that you understand TAPI 1.x and 2.0 first. This book provides the clear methodology to gain that understanding. All of the code contained in this book is available from Addison Wesley at http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-63450-3/
AUTHORBIO: Chris Sells has been involved with TAPI from its inception at Intel, both as a developer of TAPI applications and as a contributor to the API itself. He has been working on telephony development since 1989 and was awarded a telephony-related patent in 1995. Chris currently works as an independent consultant, an instructor for DevelopMentor, and a writer for the Visual C++ Developer's Journal and Visual C++ Professional newsletter. He is a frequent speaker at conferences including Software Development and several Windows developers conferences.

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This concise tutorial on Windows Telephony makes TAPI more accessible by revealing its underlying architecture and rationale and by relating its functions and features to specific tasks developers seek to accomplish in their applications, such as monitoring calls, handling modem data, and building an answering machine. Features numerous real- world examples and a comprehensive C++ class library, plus a complete working example of building a telephony service. For C++ programmers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.