Windows NT Network Programming: How to Survive in a 32-Bit Networking World

by Ralph Davis

This is a programmer's guide to Windows NT, Microsoft's 32-bit operating system. The guide features: down-to-earth instruction on how to create applications for Windows NT networks; details of Windows... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201622785
• ISBN13: 9780201622782
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Must Have

I'm a professional NT "BackOffice" developer and I regard this book as an absolute must have. It does rehash a lot of Richter and Petzold, but the book is worth having just for Chapter 16, "The LAN Manager API for Windows NT." If the LAN Manager API is better documented by any other book in print, then I'd like to but that book, but I think this is the best one. That makes this book essential for the professional NT network developer.

Ideal for client/server development in C

I learned a lot about client/server communication reading this book. It must be noted, however, that some of it is getting outdated now (8/1998): Windows NT 3.5 is replaced by NT 4, C is replaced by C++ and Java, Networking classes can be bought in a class library. I recommend this book to people who want to understand the fundamentals. Chapters I liked most: How to build DLLs, how to build an NT service, explanation of process-to-process communication.

Good, but not the best book on this subject

There is a lot of good stuff here. And the code is very easy to read and use in your own programs. However, the authors spends way too much time covering topics best left to other books (like threading, memory management and file I/O). It would have been better if there were more real-world examples instead of covering things already in Petzold's and Richter's books.