Windows System Programming, Rough Cuts, 4th Edition

Description

• Copyright 2010
• Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/4"
• Pages: 656
• Edition: 4th

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-321-65830-2
• ISBN-13: 978-0-321-65830-2

This is a working draft of a pre-release book. It is available before the published date as part of the Rough Cuts service.

“If you’re writing a native Win32 program or just want to know what the OS is really doing underneath, you need John’s book. He covers the stuff that real systems programmers absolutely must know. Recommended.”

–Chris Sells, Microsoft Corporation

“This fourth edition does a great job of incorporating new features in the Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7 API, but also stays true to teaching the foundational elements of building applications that target the Windows OS.”

–Jason Beres, Product Management, Infragistics

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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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Figures xvii

Tables xix

Programs xxi

Program Runs xxv

Preface xxvii

About the Author xxxvii

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Windows 1

Operating System Essentials 1

Windows Evolution 2

Windows Versions 3

The Windows Market Role 5

Windows, Standards, and Open Systems 6

Windows Principles 7

32-bit and 64-bit Source Code Portability 10

The Standard C Library: When to Use It for File Processing 10

What You Need to Use This Book 11

Example: A Simple Sequential File Copy 13

Summary 20

Exercises 22

Chapter 2: Using the Windows File System and Character I/O 25

The Windows File Systems 26

File Naming 27

Opening, Reading, Writing, and Closing Files 28

Interlude: Unicode and Generic Characters 34

Unicode Strategies 37

Example: Error Processing 38

Standard Devices 39

Example: Copying Multiple Files to Standard Output 41

Example: Simple File Encryption 43

File and Directory Management 46

Console I/O 51

Example: Printing and Prompting 53

Example: Printing the Current Directory 55

Summary 56

Exercises 57

Chapter 3: Advanced File and Directory Processing, and the Registry 59

The 64-Bit File System 59

File Pointers 60

Getting the File Size 64

Example: Random Record Updates 65

File Attributes and Directory Processing 70

Example: Listing File Attributes 75

Example: Setting File Times 78

File Processing Strategies 80

File Locking 81

The Registry 86

Registry Management 88

Example: Listing Registry Keys and Contents 92

Summary 96

Exercises 97

Chapter 4: Exception Handling 101

Exceptions and Their Handlers 101

Floating-Point Exceptions 108

Errors and Exceptions 110

Example: Treating Errors as Exceptions 112

Termination Handlers 113

Example: Using Termination Handlers to Improve Program Quality 117

Example: Using a Filter Function 120

Console Control Handlers 124

Example: A Console Control Handler 126

Vectored Exception Handling 128

Summary 129

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