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Windows System Programming, 4/e is the definitive developer's guide to making the most of the core Windows APIs, including those introduced with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and beyond. Thoroughly updated to reflect Microsoft's new APIs, this book focuses on essential core system services -- file system, memory, processes and threads, synchronization, communication, and security -- rather than the more commonly featured graphical user interface functions. Beginning with an examination of the features required in a single-process application, the text gradually progresses to increasingly sophisticated functions and multithreaded environments. Each chapter contains realistic examples, and this edition's code samples have been updated and streamlined to reflect today's best practices for Windows development and 64-bit code portability. This edition's extensive new coverage includes: An all-new chapter on parallelism and performance in multicore systems Detailed new coverage of source code portability across Windows, Linux, and UNIX New coverage of .NET and managed code impact and co-existence When, why, and how to use the Windows API vs. .NET More coverage of security, benchmarking, and other key topics Many readers have noted that Hart's book perfectly complements Mark Russinovich's well-known Windows Internals: Hart shows how to make the most of the features that Russinovich describes.

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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

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

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Johnson M. Hart is a consultant specializing in Microsoft Windows and .NET application development, open systems computing, technical training and writing, and software engineering. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a software engineer, manager, engineering director, and senior technology consultant at Cilk Arts, Inc., Sierra Atlantic, Hewlett-Packard, and Apollo Computer. He served as computer science professor at the University of Kentucky for nine years, and has authored all four editions of Windows System Programming.

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