Master the intricacies of application development with unmanaged C++ code - 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 * Using structured exception handling, Windows Error Recovery, and Application Restart services
目录
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
12 Fibers
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
12 DLL Advanced Techniques
21 Thread-Local Storage
22 DLL Injection and API Hooking
Part V Structured 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
