WIN32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 [With CDROM]

by Marshall Brain

Book Overview

A book/disk package showing programmers how to use Win32 system services such as synchronization, event logging, and network communications in their own programs. Organized by functional categories... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130225576
• ISBN13: 9780130225573
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

I am really satisfied with this book. It makes great reading for beginners in Win32 API, with good examples and variety of topics. Very readable. I recommend it.

Excellent book for systems programmer

This book covers various general practical problems so as to enable a systems programmer to evolve and build good large systems. This book is a excellent reference. I am very happy I bought the book.

An Excellent Win32 Reference

I bought the book to learn more about WinRPC but I ended up getting a lot more out of it. This book covers a wide range of topics including Networking, Security, IPC, Multi-Threading and NT Services. It is the perfect reference book for Win32 systems developers.

Essential for significant programming under Windows/NT

This is the single best book for Unix programmers who need to port applications to Windows/NT. It has saved me weeks of work, that would have been spent poring through obfuscated Microsoft documentation.

The best book of its genre.

I've always been impressed with books by Marshall Brain. This book explains Win32 system topics concisely and clearly. The book has an interesting section at the beginning that lists 100+ questions and where to go in the book to find the answers. Nice touch. I've gone through 3 or 4 other books on this subject and this is the best one by far. One could make a comparison to Jeffrey Richter's Advanced Windows (3rd ed.) book but even though Richter's book is very good, it doesn't cover as many topics as Brain's book