Windows Via C/C++  (English, Paperback, Nasarre Christophe)

Get the preeminent guide for programming Windows in Microsoft® Visual C++®.

Master the intricacies of application development with unmanaged C++ code —with advice 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
• Use structured exception handling, Windows Error Recovery, and Application Restart

Table Of Contents
Part I  Required Reading
1. Error Handling
2. Working with Characters and Strings
3. Kernel Objects
Part II Getting Work Done
4. Processes
5. Jobs
6. Thread Basics
7. Thread Scheduling, Priorities, and Affinities
8. Thread Synchronization in User Mode
9. Thread Synchronization with Kernel Objects
10. Synchronous and Asynchronous Device I/O
11. The Windows Thread Pool
Part III Memory Management
13. Windows Memory Architecture
14. Exploring Virtual Memory
15. Using Virtual Memory in Your Own Applications
16. A Thread's Stack
17. Memory-Mapped Files
18. Heaps
Part IV Dynamic-Link Libraries
19. DLL Basics
20. DLL Advanced Techniques
21. Thread-Local Storage
22. DLL Injection and API Hooking
Part V Structure Exception Handling
23. Termination Handlers
24. Exception Handlers and Software Exceptions
25. Unhandled Exceptions, Vectored Exception Handling, and C++ Exceptions
26. Error Reporting and Application Recovery
Part VI Appendixes
A The Build Environment
B Message Crackers, Child Control Macros, and API Macros