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