The Tenouk's Win32 - Windows 32 bits platform tutorial

Win32 programming tutorial is implementation specific to Windows operating system, that is for 32 bit Windows operating system family. Now we already have the 64 bit Windows Operating System such as, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. However the fundamentals in system programming not much change, the general principle and concept still retained. Based on the MSDN documentation but re-arranged in a readable and understandable sequence, avoiding a lot of cross references, this tutorial tries to investigate the Windows 2000 (NT5) family system through Win32 C programming. The

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compiler used was Visual C++ .Net with no CLR (unmanaged), otherwise mentioned and the platform is Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2. All program example uses console mode application. The low-level programming of this tutorial tries to cover all the main part of the Windows system from Files, Directory, Access Controls (security), Registry, User and Group, Process and Thread up to the overall security aspect of Windows Operating System. This tutorial contains hundreds working program examples. If you don't understand what is discussed or lost here, you should refer to the C/C++ Tutorial. Some Windows kernel information also provided and general info on the kernel implementation are given in ppt which can be found on the right sidebar.

In the .NET programming, C++ .NET has been left for the system and native programming, Microsoft is promoting the use of C# and VB .NET. We found the .NET is nothing new, most of the features already implemented in Java and 'similar feel' as Java. It is very beneficial for the Java programmer, you should master .NET programming language family faster. For the 64 bits system, we can expect the Win64 programming. This Tutorial may be the longest one combining the standard C and Microsoft extension to the standard C. Well, don't be a hacker but be an 'ethical hacker'. Let hack, hack, hack Windows OSes.

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