The Definitive Guide to Windows API Programming, Fully Updated for Windows 7,
Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista

Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition, now contains extensive new
coverage of 64-bit programming, parallelism, multicore systems, and many
other crucial topics. Johnson Hart.s robust code examples have been updated
and streamlined throughout. They have been debugged and tested in both 32-bit
and 64-bit versions, on single and multiprocessor systems, and under Windows 7,
Vista, Server 2008, and Windows XP. To clarify program operation, sample
programs are now illustrated with dozens of screenshots.

Hart systematically covers Windows externals at the API level, presenting
practical coverage of all the services Windows programmers need, and emphasizing
how Windows functions actually behave and interact in real-world applications.
Hart begins with features used in single-process applications and gradually
progresses to more sophisticated functions and multithreaded environments.
Topics covered include file systems, memory management, exceptions, processes,
threads, synchronization, interprocess communication, Windows services, and
security.

New coverage in this edition includes

* Leveraging parallelism and maximizing performance in multicore systems
* Promoting source code portability and application interoperability across
Windows, Linux, and UNIX
* Using 64-bit address spaces and ensuring 64-bit/32-bit portability
* Improving performance and scalability using threads, thread pools, and
completion ports
* Techniques to improve program reliability and performance in all systems
* Windows performance-enhancing API features available starting with Windows
Vista, such as slim reader/writer locks and condition variables

A companion Web site, jmhartsoftware.com, contains all sample code, Visual
Studio projects, additional examples, errata, reader comments, and Windows
commentary and discussion.

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