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.

Chapter 1 Getting started with Win32 and Win64
Chapter 2 Using the Windows file system and character I/O
Chapter 3 Advanced file and directory processing, and the
registry
Chapter 4 Exception handling
Chapter 5 Memory management, memory-mapped files,
and DLLs
Chapter 6 Process management
Chapter 7 Threads and scheduling
Chapter 8 Thread synchronization
Chapter 9 Synchronization performance impact and guidelines
Chapter 10 Advanced thread synchronization
Chapter 11 Interprocess communication
Chapter 12 Network programming with Windows sockets
Chapter 13 Windows services
Chapter 14 Asynchronous input/output and completion ports
Chapter 15 Securing Windows objects
Chapter 16 Win64 programming

Appendix A Windows, UNIX, and C library comparisons
Appendix B Performance results