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Summary: Picks up Where Programming Applications Left Off!
Review: Programming Servers expects the user to have an understanding of development on Windows 32-bit platforms, and this is a good thing, because it gives the reader the chance to jump right into some advanced topics. First the book spends some well-deserved time on the topic of scalable I/O development in Windows. Then it covers service development in great detail, new and advanced developers will pick up some points here. After this, it covers administrative features. Although the administration section is interesting and detailed, it is also the lightest-weight chapters in the book. Following these chapters is the security development section! This section is by no means lightweight, so hold on tight. It covers security from the creation of the very first user account to full blown scalable encrypted communication using industry standard protocols. This section includes an incredibly complete coverage of NT security programming plus dozens of topics totally new to Windows 2000. Just about any developer will increase their understanding Windows with this book.
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Summary: I was satisfied.
Review: The book Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000, which I get looks quite new. Probably nobody read it before. Buying this book was a good deal for me. .... Thank you.
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Summary: Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2
Review: This book is not very good for freshers.One should be familiar to COM/DCOM for reading this book.
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Summary: Good book, but the title is a little misleading
Review: This book should really be calling "Programming Secure Services for Windows 2000". Its not about server-side applications in general; rather, a specific implementation of them... a Microsoft Back-Office certified implentation to be precise. The first half covers creating, installing, and administering a service. The second half covers security. That said, this is a good book if you are looking to make a service and are concerned about security. If you don't know what a service is, then you probably don't need this book. But I'll tell you what it is just in case :) The book defines it as "a normal Windows application containing additional infrastructure that enables it to receive special treatment by the operating system". ie You can see it as a 'snap-in' under the "Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services" directory in MMC. From there, you can start, stop, and administer your service. In essence, you are creating a background process that has no GUI. MMC takes care of that for you. Using VC++ and named pipes, the authors give you plenty of examples of services and clients. A perfect follow up to "Applications for Windows 4th ed". Recommended but for a limited audience.
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Summary: They made two books out of one ("Advanced Win32 Programming"
Review: This book should really be calling "Programming Secure Services for Windows 2000". Its not about server-side applications in general; rather, a specific implementation of them... a Microsoft Back-Office certified implentation to be precise. The first half covers creating, installing, and administering a service. The second half covers security. That said, this is a good book if you are looking to make a service and are concerned about security. If you don't know what a service is, then you probably don't need this book. But I'll tell you what it is just in case :) The book defines it as "a normal Windows application containing additional infrastructure that enables it to receive special treatment by the operating system". ie You can see it as a 'snap-in' under the "Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services" directory in MMC. From there, you can start, stop, and administer your service. In essence, you are creating a background process that has no GUI. MMC takes care of that for you. Using VC++ and named pipes, the authors give you plenty of examples of services and clients. A perfect follow up to "Applications for Windows 4th ed". Recommended but for a limited audience.
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Summary: Good book, but the title is a little misleading
Review: This book should really be calling "Programming Secure Services for Windows 2000". Its not about server-side applications in general; rather, a specific implementation of them... a Microsoft Back-Office certified implentation to be precise. The first half covers creating, installing, and administering a service. The second half covers security. That said, this is a good book if you are looking to make a service and are concerned about security. If you don't know what a service is, then you probably don't need this book. But I'll tell you what it is just in case :) The book defines it as "a normal Windows application containing additional infrastructure that enables it to receive special treatment by the operating system". ie You can see it as a 'snap-in' under the "Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services" directory in MMC. From there, you can start, stop, and administer your service. In essence, you are creating a background process that has no GUI. MMC takes care of that for you. Using VC++ and named pipes, the authors give you plenty of examples of services and clients. A perfect follow up to "Applications for Windows 4th ed". Recommended but for a limited audience.
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Summary: The best of the few real books about Win32
Review: This book tells how to use existing Win32 API facilities to write solid and efficient server side apps. Most Win32 API books just describe GUI API part like Petzold's books do. This book takes you to the point - how to use EventLogging, Threads, IO completion port, security, Sockets, Overlapped IO, Synchronization, etc and why they work this way. It tells you even more - where most apps losing performance, standard techniques for synchronization, how to monitor system health. It offers little help for VB and MFC programmers at the same time if your apps should run for weeks and serve thousands requests an hour this is your survival guide.
Well, when Win32 about to be succeeded by Win64 we finally got answer how did it work and how we had to use it.
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Summary: The best of the few real books about Win32
Review: This book tells how to use existing Win32 API facilities to write solid and efficient server side apps. Most Win32 API books just describe GUI API part like Petzold's books do. This book takes you to the point - how to use EventLogging, Threads, IO completion port, security, Sockets, Overlapped IO, Synchronization, etc and why they work this way. It tells you even more - where most apps losing performance, standard techniques for synchronization, how to monitor system health. It offers little help for VB and MFC programmers at the same time if your apps should run for weeks and serve thousands requests an hour this is your survival guide.
Well, when Win32 about to be succeeded by Win64 we finally got answer how did it work and how we had to use it.
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