Windows via C/C

Master the intricacies of application development with unmanaged C code - with advice straight from the experts. Jeffrey Richters 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. Youll 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.