Research Catalog

Title

Windows system programming / Johnson M. Hart.

Author

Hart, Johnson M., 1944-

Publication

Boston : Addison-Wesley, c2005.

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Description

xxxii, 537 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This new edition has been updated and enhanced with coverage of new API functions, network programming, Windows Services, process and thread management, synchronization, and application performance on single and multiprocessor systems. It also describes techniques for porting applications to Win64, the new Windows 64-bit API."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Application software > Development
• Microsoft Win32
• Microsoft Windows (Computer file)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-521) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Getting started with Win32 and Win64 -- 2. Using the windows file system and character I/O -- 3. Advanced file and directory processing, and the registry -- 4. Exception handling -- 5. Memory management, memory-mapped files, and DLLs -- Process management -- 7. Threads and scheduling -- 8. Thread synchronization -- 9. Synchronization performance impact and guidelines -- 10. Advanced thread synchronization -- 11. Interprocess communication -- 12. Network programming with windows sockets -- 13. Windows services -- 14. Asynchronous input/output and completion ports -- 15. Securing windows objects -- 16. Win64 programming -- Appendix -- A. Using the sample programs -- B. Windows, UNIX, and C library comparisons -- C. Performance results.

ISBN

0321256190 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004017402

OCLC

56051021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library