WindowsSystemProgramming

WindowsSystemProgramming,4/eisthedefinitivedeveloper'sguidetomakingthemostofthecoreWindowsAPIs,includingthoseintroducedwithWindowsVista,WindowsServer2008,andbeyond.ThoroughlyupdatedtoreflectMicrosoft'snewAPIs,thisbookfocusesonessentialcoresystemservices--filesystem,memory,processesandthreads,synchronization,communication,andsecurity--ratherthanthemorecommonlyfeaturedgraphicaluserinterfacefunctions.Beginningwithanexaminationofthefeaturesrequiredinasingle-processapplication,thetextgraduallyprogressestoincreasinglysophisticatedfunctionsandmultithreadedenvironments.Eachchaptercontainsrealisticexamples,andthisedition'scodesampleshavebeenupdatedandstreamlinedtoreflecttoday'sbestpracticesforWindowsdevelopmentand64-bitcodeportability.Thisedition'sextensivenewcoverageincludes:"Anall-newchapteronparallelismandperformanceinmulticoresystems"DetailednewcoverageofsourcecodeportabilityacrossWindows,Linux,andUNIX"Newcoverageof.NETandmanagedcodeimpactandco-existence"When,why,andhowtousetheWindowsAPIvs..NET"Morecoverageofsecurity,benchmarking,andotherkeytopicsManyreadershavenotedthatHart'sbookperfectlycomplementsMarkRussinovich'swell-knownWindowsInternals:HartshowshowtomakethemostofthefeaturesthatRussinovichdescribes.