Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows (Dv-Mps General)

by Jeffrey Richter (Author)

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An update to a bestselling, practical Windows programming guide, this title is a comprehensive inside look at the Windows 2000 and 64-bit Windows environments. It provides detailed system information that's unavailable elsewhere, including architectural and implementation details and sample code.

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Aimed at the experienced C/C++ developer, the new edition of Jeffrey Richter's Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows supplies expanded coverage of essential advanced Windows programming techniques and APIs. In addition, the book includes excellent material on Windows 2000 (including future 64-bit versions of the OS) and use of some C++ for sample code.

This book's strength has to be its coverage of essential under-the-hood operating system features, like processes and threads, synchronization objects and memory management techniques, plus the APIs used to work with them. In each section, the book zeros in on how Windows 2000 and Windows 98 manage these system objects. (Windows NT 4 isn't mentioned here, however.) Short, effective examples, several of which incorporate the author's reusable custom C++ classes, demonstrate each operating system feature in action. Several useful utilities highlight details of how Windows works, with programs that let you view threads, memory objects, and other kernel objects.

With its coverage of Unicode and 64-bit Windows 2000, this is a book that will take your codebase into the future. Besides describing important APIs, the book provides programming tricks and tips for many useful advanced coding tasks (such as local thread storage, sparsely mapped memory files, using DLLs, and Windows hooks.)

Clearly written and filled with technical details on Windows 2000, this book is a great resource for any C/C++ programmer who wants to know what is really going on inside the latest Microsoft OS. In all, this title will be an essential "upgrade" for any reader of an earlier edition and will no doubt deserve serious consideration from C/C++ programmers wanting to get the most out of their Windows code. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Windows 2000 and Windows 98 advanced system programming techniques; 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 2000; Windows error messages; Unicode strings; kernel objects and security; processes; jobs; managing threads; scheduling; priorities; thread synchronization with critical sections; events, mutexes, and custom C++ classes; fibers; Windows memory architecture; managing virtual memory; thread stacks; memory-mapped files; default and custom heaps; DLL basics; thread-local storage; DLL injection and API hooking; Windows structured exception handling (SEH) basics; C++ vs. Windows exceptions; exception handlers.

About the Author

Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com)-a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. He is the author of the previous editions of this book, Windows via C/C++, and several other Windows®-related programming books. Jeffrey has been consulting with the Microsoft® .NET Framework team since October 1999.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press (October 23, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1572319968
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1572319967
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.59 x 2.1 x 9.55 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,686,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jeffrey Richter is a Software Architect on Microsoft’s Azure team. He produced a video series on Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications available (for free) on YouTube at http://aka.ms/RichterCloudApps. He is also a co-founder of Wintellect, a software consulting and training company where he has authored many videos available on http://WintellectNOW.com.

Jeffrey has spoken at many industry conferences, and is the author of several best-selling Windows and .NET Framework programming books and has also been a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine where he authored many feature articles and columns.

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Frank Paris

Simply what the professional developer needs to know

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2000

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I don't know what other reviewers are talking about claiming this is for "advanced" Microsoft developers only. This book describes bread and butter Microsoft development for C and C++ professional developers. Any serious program has to use all kinds of the facilities described in this book just to get anything done that is interesting and worthwhile. The value of this book is that the things you need to know to do this development are presented clearly and systematically. This has been the virtue of all past iterations of this book, and each subsequent edition has been an improvement on the past. The alternative to this book is digging through the SDK, which you can do with the on-line help. THAT I would call boring. But I can't imagine that a truly professional Microsoft C or C++ developer would find this book boring, as one of the reviewers has. I appreciate the fact that it is not full of cute little asides or sarcastic observations. It is a professional presentation addressed to professional developers who needs to know this stuff just to do their jobs or to get through an interview for a new job.

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Elijah D

Classic Windows

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2003

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When you want to know how windows works, there are 3 people (outside of Microsoft) to go to: Jeffery Richer, Matt Pietrek and John Robbins. This book deserves a spot on every serious developer's shelf. It covers a lot of under the hood topics that are difficult to find elsewhere.
Even though .NET is starting to gain ground, a lot of the low level details of the OS have not changed and a good knowlegde of win32 can never be a bad investment.

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EDWARD BROWN

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Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016

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Another book you must have.

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Ron

Not for learning Win API

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2003

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The title of this book suggested to me that it was the book I needed if I wanted to learn the Windows API. Unfortunetly after struggling through it I've reallized it's targeted to an audience who already has knowledge of programming in the Windows API. I think a better title would have been something like "Tips, techniques, and common shortfalls for the Microsoft Windows Application Programmer." A waste of money on my part since I would need to buy his earlier book, and then by the time I would have mastered the basics that would allow me to move on to this book C# .NET will be wellestablished and although maybe not obsolete, the old Win API will not be needed. So this one is going on my shelf and I doubt I will ever make much use of it. The only reason I don't give it a lower rating is because it does have interesting notable information on Unicode even for me, and were I of the experienced, intended audience, then lots of the other contained information would be very interesting and beneficial from what I can tell.

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bluemarlin

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Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2017

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quality coverage

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Allan Elder

Best book on the Win32 API ever written.

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2007

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This is the first book anyone who intends to write Windows applications should read.

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Zeca

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018

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Microsloop things... microsloop style of doing things...

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Skydiver

It won't disappoint you...

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2001

The Bible is to the priest as "Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows" is to the advanced Windows programmer. Everything you want to know about programming Windows internals you'll get it all here. Whether you are a good C/C++ Windows programmer you'll find it essential. It is the classic book you should keep on your desk. It covers all the following subjects:
THREADS: You'll learn when and how to create threads and how to schedule and synchronize them through synchronization objects like Events, Mutexes, Semaphores, Critical Sections; all explained in detail.
MEMORY MANAGEMENT: You'll discover how Windows manages memory and how you can master Memory Mapped Files, Virtual Memory and Heaps.
FILE SYSTEM: All the main file management APIs are described and you'll find useful examples.
DEVICE I/O: It describes how Pipes, Mail Slots, Sockets and Serial Ports work and how to perform asynchronous I/O operations on the local storage or on the network.
SEH (Structured Exception Handling): You will learn how to take advantage from Exception Handling even by C applications and how SEH will help you in writing more robust applications.
PROCESSES: You can get all the information you need to understand how Windows Processes work and how to modify their properties.
The companion CD and book is full of very good examples and source code. There are plenty of hints and tricks and Win 32 to Win 64 code migration is covered too. It won't disappoint you, but it isn't for beginners.

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Mario

Indispensabile e sempre attuale.

Reviewed in Italy on September 14, 2013

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Due sono i testi di riferimento che non possono mancare a chi programma in Windows. Uno è questo. L'altro è "Programming Windows", Charles Petzold, 5th ed. Essi coprono aspetti diversi, quindi non esiste sovrapposizione. Sono indispensabili a chi programma con l'utilizzo diretto delle API di Windows. Non importa che versione di Windos si stia usando e quale sia il linguaggio di programmazione. Il libro è stato comprato come "usato" (FastMediaFromUSA), ma è praticamente nuovo e col CD allegato.

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sergehao

Pour programmeurs C

Reviewed in France on November 25, 2012

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Ce livre est à lire avant "Windows Internals". Il permet de comprendre ce que fait un Operating System comme Windows à travers les services rendus aux applications écrites en C. Je l'ai lu davantage pour comprendre le fonctionnement de Windows que pour programmer. Le mécanisme de la boucle GetMessage() est mieux expliqué que dans tout autre littérature sur le sujet. Une référence sérieuse pour comprendre Windows.

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