Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

1.1. One Hundred and Twenty-One Questions About Windows 2000 and 98

Many programmers coming to Windows 2000 and Windows 98 have questions about it. This section contains 121 of the most common system- programming questions, and information about where to look to find the answers. Use this list as a map for the rest of the book. These questions start with the most common and move toward the exotic.

1.1.1. General

1	How do I compile code on a Windows system? See Section 1.2 and Appendix A.
2	What are objects and handles? Why do they exist? See Section 1.5.
3	Why do there seem to be so many bugs in the 32-bit API? See Section 1.7.

1.1.2. File Operations

4	How do I read from and write to a file? See Sections 2.3 and 2.7.
5	How do I read and write a large ...