<DIV><p>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.</p><p> Discover how to:<br><br></p><ul><li>Architect and implement your applications for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows</li> <li>Create and manipulate processes and jobs</li> <li>Schedule, manage, synchronize and destroy threads</li> <li>Perform asynchronous and synchronous device I/O operations with the I/O completion port</li> <li>Allocate memory using various techniques including virtual memory, memory-mapped files, and heaps</li> <li>Manipulate the default committed physical storage of thread stacks</li> <li>Build DLLs for delay-loading, API hooking, and process injection</li> <li>Using structured exception handling, Windows Error Recovery, and Application Restart services</li> </ul></div>