Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9780735607538
ISBN: 0735607532
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 698
Publication Date: 2000-03
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Sales Rank: 862927
Studio: Microsoft Press
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Rating: - The best of the few real books about Win32
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 ... Read More
Rating: - I was satisfied.
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.
Rating: - The best book for server side development
I'm doing server-side programming for years and I can state - a few books can match this one. It covers almost all core Win32 API that involved in server side development in great details. It is easy enough to read, but required basic CS knowledge. It was specially written for Win 32 API unlike many other books that been adopted from Win16. It covers fundamentals - processes, threads, different types IO, event logging, resource management, synchronization security and etc. This is the stuff ... Read More
Rating: - Good book, but the title is a little misleading
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, ... Read More
Rating: - Great book
I bought this book for one of our developers. We are just getting started on server side programming. He said it was the perfect book, and he couldn't put it down. I'm buying a second copy now.
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