Windows® via C/C++

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Pearson Education, 2007 M11 28 - 848 pages

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
 

Contents

Exploring Virtual Memory
Using Virtual Memory in Your Own Applications
A Threads Stack

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Christophe Nasarre works for BusinessObjects, a multinational business-intelligence consultancy and training company that is focused on helping organizations gain better insight into their business through business intelligence solutions. He has worked as a technical editor on numerous Microsoft Press books.

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