Essential WinInet Developing Applications Using the Windows Internet API with RAS, ISAPI, ASP, and COM - Aaron Skonnard - 1999 - paperback - Addison Wesley

The era of stand alone, self-contained applications is rapidly ending. Distributed, networked applications have become critical to meeting business needs in a fast-paced, dynamic world. Until now, building networked Windows applications wasn't easy. But now Microsoft has released a powerful new Windows Internet API (Winlnet) that dramatically simplifies the process of creating Internet-enabled Windows applications.

Winlnet makes it possible to create Windows applications that can download Web pages, access server applications, upload and download files, and traverse Gopher document systems allowing developers to build such sophisticated Windows Internet applications as full fledged Web browsers, home banking applications, and stock portfolio programs.