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    Windows® via C/C++ (softcover), Fifth Edition

    • Windows® via C/C++ (softcover), Fifth Edition

    • By: ; Christophe Nasarre

    • Publisher: Microsoft Press

    • Pub. Date:

    • Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-6377-0

    • Pages in Print Edition: 846

    • Subscriber Rating: 4.428571428571429 out of 5 rating4.428571428571429 [7 Ratings]

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    Get the classic book for programming Windows in Microsoft® Visual C++®—now in its fifth edition and fully revised for Windows Vista®. This must-have book covers programming at the API level with code samples in Visual C++.

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    Table of Contents

     

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    Copyright

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    Dedication

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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    Part 1: Required Reading

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    1 Token    Chapter 1. Error Handling
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    Section 1.1. Defining Your Own Error Codes

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    Section 1.2. The ErrorShow Sample Application

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    1 Token    Chapter 2. Working with Characters and Strings
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    Section 2.1. Character Encodings

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    Section 2.2. ANSI and Unicode Character and String Data Types

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    Section 2.3. Unicode and ANSI Functions in Windows

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    Section 2.4. Unicode and ANSI Functions in the C Run-Time Library

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    Section 2.5. Secure String Functions in the C Run-Time Library

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    Section 2.6. Why You Should Use Unicode

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    Section 2.7. How We Recommend Working with Characters and Strings

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    Section 2.8. Translating Strings Between Unicode and ANSI

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    1 Token    Chapter 3. Kernel Objects
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    Section 3.1. What Is a Kernel Object?

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    Section 3.2. A Process’ Kernel Object Handle Table

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    Section 3.3. Sharing Kernel Objects Across Process Boundaries

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    Part 2: Getting Work Done

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    Chapter 4. Processes
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    Section 4.1. Writing Your First Windows Application

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    Section 4.2. The CreateProcess Function

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    Section 4.3. Terminating a Process

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    Section 4.4. Child Processes

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    Section 4.5. When Administrator Runs as a Standard User

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    1 Token    Chapter 5. Jobs
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    Section 5.1. Placing Restrictions on a Job’s Processes

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    Section 5.2. Placing a Process in a Job

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    Section 5.3. Terminating All Processes in a Job

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    Section 5.4. Job Notifications

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    Section 5.5. The Job Lab Sample Application

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    1 Token    Chapter 6. Thread Basics
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    Section 6.1. When to Create a Thread

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    Section 6.2. When Not to Create a Thread

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    Section 6.3. Writing Your First Thread Function

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    Section 6.4. The CreateThread Function

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    Section 6.5. Terminating a Thread

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    Section 6.6. Some Thread Internals

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    Section 6.7. C/C++ Run-Time Library Considerations

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    Section 6.8. Gaining a Sense of One’s Own Identity

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    1 Token    Chapter 7. Thread Scheduling, Priorities, and Affinities
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    Section 7.1. Suspending and Resuming a Thread

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    Section 7.2. Suspending and Resuming a Process

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    Section 7.3. Sleeping

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    Section 7.4. Switching to Another Thread

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    Section 7.5. Switching to Another Thread on a Hyper-Threaded CPU

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    Section 7.6. A Thread’s Execution Times

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    Section 7.7. Putting the CONTEXT in Context

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    Section 7.8. Thread Priorities

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    Section 7.9. An Abstract View of Priorities

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    Section 7.10. Programming Priorities

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    Section 7.11. Affinities

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    1 Token    Chapter 8. Thread Synchronization in User Mode
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    Section 8.1. Atomic Access: The Interlocked Family of Functions

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    Section 8.2. Cache Lines

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    Section 8.3. Advanced Thread Synchronization

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    Section 8.4. Critical Sections

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    Section 8.5. Slim Reader-Writer Locks

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    Section 8.6. Condition Variables

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    1 Token    Chapter 9. Thread Synchronization with Kernel Objects
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    Section 9.1. Wait Functions

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    Section 9.2. Successful Wait Side Effects

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    Section 9.3. Event Kernel Objects

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    Section 9.4. Waitable Timer Kernel Objects

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    Section 9.5. Semaphore Kernel Objects

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    Section 9.6. Mutex Kernel Objects

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    Section 9.7. A Handy Thread Synchronization Object Chart

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    Section 9.8. Other Thread Synchronization Functions

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    1 Token    Chapter 10. Synchronous and Asynchronous Device I/O
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    Section 10.1. Opening and Closing Devices

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    Section 10.2. Working with File Devices

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    Section 10.3. Performing Synchronous Device I/O

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    Section 10.4. Basics of Asynchronous Device I/O

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    Section 10.5. Receiving Completed I/O Request Notifications

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    1 Token    Chapter 11. The Windows Thread Pool
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    Section 11.1. Scenario 1: Call a Function Asynchronously

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    Section 11.2. Scenario 2: Call a Function at a Timed Interval

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    Section 11.3. Scenario 3: Call a Function When a Single Kernel Object Becomes Signaled

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    Section 11.4. Scenario 4: Call a Function When Asynchronous I/O Requests Complete

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    Section 11.5. Callback Termination Actions

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    1 Token    Chapter 12. Fibers
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    Section 12.1. Working with Fibers

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    Part 3: Memory Management

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    1 Token    Chapter 13. Windows Memory Architecture
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    Section 13.1. A Process’ Virtual Address Space

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    Section 13.2. How a Virtual Address Space Is Partitioned

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    Section 13.3. Regions in an Address Space

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    Section 13.4. Committing Physical Storage Within a Region

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    Section 13.5. Physical Storage and the Paging File

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    Section 13.6. Protection Attributes

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    Section 13.7. Bringing It All Home

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    Section 13.8. The Importance of Data Alignment

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    1 Token    Chapter 14. Exploring Virtual Memory
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    Section 14.1. System Information

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    Section 14.2. Virtual Memory Status

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    Section 14.3. Memory Management on NUMA Machines

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    Section 14.4. Determining the State of an Address Space

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    1 Token    Chapter 15. Using Virtual Memory in Your Own Applications
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    Section 15.1. Reserving a Region in an Address Space

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    Section 15.2. Committing Storage in a Reserved Region

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    Section 15.3. Reserving a Region and Committing Storage Simultaneously

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    Section 15.4. When to Commit Physical Storage

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    Section 15.5. Decommitting Physical Storage and Releasing a Region

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    Section 15.6. Changing Protection Attributes

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    Section 15.7. Resetting the Contents of Physical Storage

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    Section 15.8. Address Windowing Extensions

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    1 Token    Chapter 16. A Thread’s Stack
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    Section 16.1. The C/C++ Run-Time Library’s Stack-Checking Function

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    Section 16.2. The Summation Sample Application

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    1 Token    Chapter 17. Memory-Mapped Files
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    Section 17.1. Memory-Mapped Executables and DLLs

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    Section 17.2. Memory-Mapped Data Files

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    Section 17.3. Using Memory-Mapped Files

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    Section 17.4. Processing a Big File Using Memory-Mapped Files

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    Section 17.5. Memory-Mapped Files and Coherence

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    Section 17.6. Specifying the Base Address of a Memory-Mapped File

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    Section 17.7. Implementation Details of Memory-Mapped Files

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    Section 17.8. Using Memory-Mapped Files to Share Data Among Processes

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    Section 17.9. Memory-Mapped Files Backed by the Paging File

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    Section 17.10. Sparsely Committed Memory-Mapped Files

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    1 Token    Chapter 18. Heaps
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    Section 18.1. A Process’ Default Heap

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    Section 18.2. Reasons to Create Additional Heaps

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    Section 18.3. How to Create an Additional Heap

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    Section 18.4. Miscellaneous Heap Functions

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    Part 4: Dynamic-Link Libraries

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    1 Token    Chapter 19. DLL Basics
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    Section 19.1. DLLs and a Process’ Address Space

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    Section 19.2. The Overall Picture

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    1 Token    Chapter 20. DLL Advanced Techniques
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    Section 20.1. Explicit DLL Module Loading and Symbol Linking

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    Section 20.2. The DLL’s Entry-Point Function

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    Section 20.3. Delay-Loading a DLL

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    Section 20.4. Function Forwarders

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    Section 20.5. Known DLLs

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    Section 20.6. DLL Redirection

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    Section 20.7. Rebasing Modules

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    Section 20.8. Binding Modules

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    1 Token    Chapter 21. Thread-Local Storage
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    Section 21.1. Dynamic TLS

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    Section 21.2. Static TLS

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    1 Token    Chapter 22. DLL Injection and API Hooking
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    Section 22.1. DLL Injection: An Example

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    Section 22.2. Injecting a DLL Using the Registry

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    Section 22.3. Injecting a DLL Using Windows Hooks

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    Section 22.4. Injecting a DLL Using Remote Threads

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    Section 22.5. Injecting a DLL with a Trojan DLL

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    Section 22.6. Injecting a DLL as a Debugger

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    Section 22.7. Injecting Code with CreateProcess

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    Section 22.8. API Hooking: An Example

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    Part 5: Structured Exception Handling

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    1 Token    Chapter 23. Termination Handlers
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    Section 23.1. Understanding Termination Handlers by Example

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    1 Token    Chapter 24. Exception Handlers and Software Exceptions
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    Section 24.1. Understanding Exception Filters and Exception Handlers by Example

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    Section 24.2. EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER

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    Section 24.3. EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_EXECUTION

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    Section 24.4. EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_SEARCH

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    Section 24.5. GetExceptionCode

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    Section 24.6. GetExceptionInformation

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    Section 24.7. Software Exceptions

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    1 Token    Chapter 25. Unhandled Exceptions, Vectored Exception Handling, and C++ Exceptions
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    Section 25.1. Inside the UnhandledExceptionFilter Function

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    Section 25.2. Just-in-Time Debugging

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    Section 25.3. The Spreadsheet Sample Application

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    Section 25.4. Vectored Exception and Continue Handlers

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    Section 25.5. C++ Exceptions vs. Structured Exceptions

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    Section 25.6. Exceptions and the Debugger

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    1 Token    Chapter 26. Error Reporting and Application Recovery
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    Section 26.1. The Windows Error Reporting Console

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    Section 26.2. Programmatic Windows Error Reporting

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    Section 26.3. Customizing All Problem Reports Within a Process

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    Section 26.4. Creating and Customizing a Problem Report

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    Section 26.5. Automatic Application Restart and Recovery

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    Part 6: Appendixes

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    1 Token    Appendix A. The Build Environment
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    Section A.1. The CmnHdr.h Header File

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    1 Token    Appendix B. Message Crackers, Child Control Macros, and API Macros
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    Section B.1. Message Crackers

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    Section B.2. Child Control Macros

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    Section B.3. API Macros

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    1 Token    Appendix C. About the Authors
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    Section C.1. Jeffrey Richter

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    Section C.2. Christophe Nasarre

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