Esposito D. Visual C++ Windows Shell Programming

Birmingham: Published by Wrox Press Ltd., 1998. — 666 p. ISBN: 1-861001-8-43.
About the Author
Dino Esposito is a senior consultant who specializes in Windows and COM development. At present, his work for Andersen Consulting focuses on the development of Web-based applications. He's a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Developer Days and occasionally holds seminars for Mondadori Informatica Education.
He also has extensive experience developing commercial Windows-based software, especially for the photography world, and was part of the team who designed and realized one of the first European image databanks.
Dino loves writing, and is a contributing editor to Microsoft Internet Developer for which he runs the Cutting Edge column. He contributes to a number of magazines including Microsoft Systems Journal , MSDN News, Windows Developer's Journal, Dr. Dobb's Journal and a number of Italian magazines. He co-authored Professional IE4 Programming and authored Instant DHTML Scriptlets, both published by Wrox Press.
Dino lives in Rome (Italy) with his wife Silvia and a six-month-old son, Francesco. Feel free to contact him at desposito@infomedia.it.