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Summary: A book beyond ordinary programming book style
Review: This is definately a great book. It is a new version of Advance Windows Programming, but it is not only for expert. Everyone who make programs on Windows platform should take a look. If you are facinated by the jargon like "thread, process, dll, virtual memory...", go to this book, you will find out the stuff running on your computer for years is really cool, and you finally understand what's going on out there, I mean really understand. You won't be regret to buy a book like this. Thanks Jeffrey for the well-written book.
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Summary: Classic Windows
Review: When you want to know how windows works, there are 3 people (outside of Microsoft) to go to: Jeffery Richer, Matt Pietrek and John Robbins. This book deserves a spot on every serious developer's shelf. It covers a lot of under the hood topics that are difficult to find elsewhere.Even though .NET is starting to gain ground, a lot of the low level details of the OS have not changed and a good knowlegde of win32 can never be a bad investment.
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Summary: Excellent guide to make a system program
Review: When you write some codes involved system features, you could get a good key or hint from this book. This book is explainning about the system architecture of Windows, how to block the shared resource(synchronization), the futher usage of Win32 APIs. If you are makinig the program handles a globally shared data like real-time stock data or cache mechnism, or if you are making the application is working with some other process, you will realize the true value of this book.
And this book is providing a good hint for the performance improvement. But this book is not for the network feature, GUI related feature, Database, the APIs for handle file (descriptor level) which were handled in the same book in third edition "Advanced Windows", and the genuine computting logics.
(The file handling APIs are explained in "Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows 2000" of the same author.) This book could be called "A Excellent Practical Windows Programming Guide".
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