Programming Applications for Windows

Features:

• Understanding Windows 2000 features?such as jobs, thread-pooling APIs, Address Windowing extensions, Toolhelp functions, and sparse files
• Mastering DLL basics and applying advanced techniques?including API hooking, DLL Injection, function forwarders, delay loading, redirection, rebasing, and binding
• Solving common thread-synchronization problems with a toolkit of packaged, reusable code
• Building high-performance, scalable applications by understanding data alignment, cache-line boundaries, cross-process critical sections, NUMA architectures, and processor affinity
• Using structured exception handling to create memory-efficient applications
• Transitioning to 64-bit development?see what?s ahead by studying a full cache of code built and tested on Windows 2000

Two hundred thousand developers?and counting?have advanced their expertise with Windows under author Jeffrey Richter?s skillful tutelage. Packed now with even more expertly rendered examples and pragmatic insights, Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows, Fourth Edition, extends this legacy to a new generation of developers?and the next generation of Windows.

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Required Reading

Chapter One: Error Handling

Chapter Two: Unicode

Chapter Three: Kernel Objects

Part II: Getting Work Done

Chapter Four: Processes

Chapter Five: Jobs

Chapter Six: Thread Basics

Chapter Seven: Thread Scheduling, Priorities, And Affinities

Chapter Eight: Thread Synchronization In User Mode

Chapter Nine: Thread Synchronization With Kernel Objects

Chapter Ten: Thread Synchronization Toolkit

Chapter Eleven: Thread Pooling

Chapter Twelve: Fibers

Part III: Memory Management

Chapter Thirteen: Windows Memory Architecture

Chapter Fourteen: Exploring Virtual Memory

Chapter Fifteen: Using Virtual Memory In Your Own Applications

Chapter Sixteen: A Thread's Stack

Chapter Seventeen: Memory-Mapped Files

Chapter Eighteen: Heaps

Part IV: Dynamic-Link Libraries

Chapter Nineteen: Dll Basics

Chapter Twenty: Dll Advanced Techniques

Chapter Twenty-One: Thread-Local Storage

Chapter Twenty-Two: Dll Injection And Api Hooking

Chapter Twenty-Four: Exception Handlers And Software Exceptions

Chapter Twenty-Five: Unhandled Exceptions And C++ Exceptions

Part V: Windowing

Chapter Twenty-Six: Window Messaging

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hardware Input Model And Local Input State

Appendix A: The Build Environment

Appendix B: Message Crackers, Child Control Macros, And Api Macros

Index