Windows via C/C++ 5th Edition

Master the intricacies of application development with unmanaged C++ code - with advice straight from the experts. Jeffrey Richter's 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.You'll 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; and use structured exception handling, Windows Error Recovery, and Application Restart. Read more