Customer Reviews

Win 32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 95 and Windows NT

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This is the book for you if you need to learn quickly about a particular feature in the win32 API and incorporate that in your code. Although it does not go into as much detail as Jeffrey Richter's 'Advanced Windows', it covers areas that Richter left out, such as RPC, Named pipes,mail slots,sockets. Also, it's much easier on the reader compared to the former.

This is the single best book for Unix programmers who need to port applications to Windows/NT. It has saved me weeks of work, that would have been spent poring through obfuscated Microsoft documentation.

I bought the book to learn more about WinRPC but I ended up getting a lot more out of it. This book covers a wide range of topics including Networking, Security, IPC, Multi-Threading and NT Services. It is the perfect reference book for Win32 systems developers.

I am really satisfied with this book. It makes great reading for beginners in Win32 API, with good examples and variety of topics. Very readable. I recommend it.

I've always been impressed with books by Marshall Brain. This book explains Win32 system topics concisely and clearly. The book has an interesting section at the beginning that lists 100+ questions and where to go in the book to find the answers. Nice touch. I've gone through 3 or 4 other books on this subject and this is the best one by far. One could make a comparison to Jeffrey Richter's Advanced Windows (3rd ed.) book but even though Richter's book is very good, it doesn't cover as many topics as Brain's book

This book covers various general practical problems so as to enable a systems programmer to evolve and build good large systems. This book is a excellent reference. I am very happy I bought the book.

Not only is this book very clear and concise, it also offers excellent examples for each section and explains why you should or should not use a particular service. After reading each chapter, I was able to apply what I had learned immediately to real world applications. A must for serious NT programming.

This is among my favorite Win32 programming books. It provides excellent information on coding system services and for utilizing some of the more obscure Win32 apis in your applications

I just thought I'd give it one star to make the review a bit more realistic...