Windows via C/C++, Fifth Edition Book Summaries

Nowadays I started reading some chapters from Windows via C/C++, Fifth Edition Jeffrey Richter (Wintellect) Christophe Nasarre Book.

My goals from writing and publishing this summaries is:

• Encourage myself to keep reading to increase my knowledge and improve my experience.
• Help others.
• Gain some money (Mostly indirect ways :D).

In this Post I will put links for all chapter summaries so it can easily reached.


Part I: Required Reading

• Chapter 1: Error Handling 
• Chapter 2: Working with Characters and Strings 
• Chapter 3: Kernel Objects 

Part II: Getting Work Done

• Chapter 4: Processes 
• Chapter 5: Jobs 
• Chapter 6: Thread Basics 
• Chapter 7: Thread Scheduling, Priorities, and Affinities 
• Chapter 8: Thread Synchronization in User Mode 
• Chapter 9: Thread Synchronization with Kernel Objects 
• Chapter 10: Synchronous and Asynchronous Device I/O 
• Chapter 11: The Windows Thread Pool 
• Chapter 12: Fibers 

Part III: Memory Management

• Chapter 13: Windows Memory Architecture 
• Chapter 14: Exploring Virtual Memory 
• Chapter 15: Using Virtual Memory in Your Own Applications 
• Chapter 16: A Thread's Stack 
• Chapter 17: Memory-Mapped Files 
• Chapter 18: Heaps 

Part IV: Dynamic-Link Libraries

• Chapter 19: DLL Basics 
• Chapter 20: DLL Advanced Techniques 
• Chapter 21: Thread-Local Storage 
• Chapter 22: DLL Injection and API Hooking 

Part V: Structured Exception Handling

• Chapter 23: Termination Handlers 
• Chapter 24: Exception Handlers and Software Exceptions 
• Chapter 25: Unhandled Exceptions, Vectored Exception Handling, and C++ Exceptions 
• Chapter 26: Error Reporting and Application Recovery