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Windows® via C/C++, 5th Edition
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Windows® via C/C++, 5th Edition

by Jeffrey Richter, Christophe Nasarre
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
848 pages
27h 15m
English
Microsoft Press

Overview

Master the intricacies of application development with unmanaged C++ code—straight from the experts. Jeffrey Richter’s classic book is now fully revised for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. You get in-depth, comprehensive guidance, advanced techniques, and extensive code samples to help you program Windows–based applications.

Discover how to:

  • Architect and implement your applications for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

  • Create and manipulate processes and jobs

  • Schedule, manage, synchronize and destroy threads

  • Perform asynchronous and synchronous device I/O operations with the I/O completion port

  • Allocate memory using various techniques including virtual memory, memory-mapped files, and heaps

  • Manipulate the default committed physical storage of thread stacks

  • Build DLLs for delay-loading, API hooking, and process injection

  • Using structured exception handling, Windows Error Recovery, and Application Restart services

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