Advanced Win32 Programming & Debugging for Windows NT & Windows 95

Create more sophisticated Win32 applications by spending a day with Matt Pietrek as he digs beneath Win32 to reveal advanced techniques, data structures, and algorithms

Instructor: Matt Pietrek, Author of Windows 95 System Programming
Secrets (IDG Books), and the "Under the Hood" columnist for
Microsoft Systems Journal
Duration: 1 Day

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE

After you've learned the core Win32 programming APIs, there's still many advanced concepts to learn. This type of advanced information is what separates the average programmer from the guru. In this one day seminar, you'll gain valuable insight into how Windows NT works and how to apply advanced debugging techniques.

For this seminar, the Win32 implementation on Intel CPUs will be the focus, but numerous portions will also apply to other CPU architectures. The seminar will be a combination of lecture, live demonstations, and examination of sample source code (these programs will be distributed to students).

Topics covered will include:

• Advanced Win32 Memory Management
  • Understanding the Win32 address space
  • Querying and interpreting memory related information
  • Working with linear and logical addresses
  • Understanding and using process working set data
• Advanced Threading
  • Using thread local storage (TLS)
  • Understanding the thread information block (TIB)
  • Working with fibers
  • How structured exception handling really works
• Working with EXEs, DLLs, and in-memory modules
  • Understanding in-memory modules
  • Breaking open Portable Executable files
  • Common sections and resource layout
  • API importing and exporting implementation
  • What GetProcAddress really does
• Creating lean and mean Win32 executables
  • Techniques for reducing executable size
  • Replacing the standard run time library
  • Tuning your executables to load faster
  • The new Win32 APIs to help tune executables (ImageHlp.dll)
• Advanced Win32 Debugging and Performance Information
  • Win32 debugging aids
  • Using the Win32 debug API
  • Working with reverse engineering tools
  • Accessing performance information
  • Accessing system level information

Upon completion of this seminar, you will have a solid technical grounding in many fundamental Win32 concepts and techniques. With this information, you can write powerful programs that take full advantage of the system across Win32 platforms.

PREREQUISITES

Attendees should be midlevel to advanced Win32 programmers who can program in the C or C++ languages. This seminar assumes a basic knowledge of processes, threads, using DLLs, etc... Knowledge of Intel 80x86 assembly language is helpful, but not required.

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