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中文介绍:
Raymond Chen在Micorsoft的Windows开发团队中工作了十余年，他将为您揭开那些有必要知道的“Windows内幕”。
Chen风趣的写作风格、深入的洞察力以及引人深思的幽默，使他成为了世界上最优秀的技术博客作者之一。在本书中，他不仅给我们带来了许多幕后的故事，宝贵的技术建议，还带来了许多启发性的轶事；这些都将帮助您最大程度地理解Windows。
【内容简介】
本书通过一系列短文来讲解Windows基本原理，例如：窗口和对话框的管理机制，如何设计像自动售货机那样有效的用户界面，对性能优化的理解，向后兼容的关键技术细节，Windows程序的安全漏洞，如何使程序更好地在Windows系统中运行等。本书不仅讲解Windows幕后的许多故事、宝贵的技术建议，还包括了许多启发性的轶事，这些都将帮助读者最大程度地理解Windows。.
本书适合于软件开发人员，或对Windows的发展历史有兴趣的读者。
为什么Windows的工作方式是这样的？
为什么“关闭计算机（Shut Down）”选项要放在开始菜单中？
为什么会设计一个“开始（Start）”按钮？
我怎么才能进入到对话框的消息循环中？
为什么GetWindoeText函数会有着奇怪的行为？
为什么注册表文件会被叫作“蜂房”？
如果我们追溯Windows的历史，就会发现在Windows中许多奇怪的事情都有着合乎逻辑的解释。在理解了这些事情之后，你不仅能够获得开发能力的大大提高，同时也能够避免遭受更多的挫折。Remond Chen在Micorsoft的Windows开发团队中工作了十余年，他将为你揭开那些有必要知道的“Windows内幕”。
Chen风趣的写作风格、深入的洞察力以及引人深思的幽默，使他成为了世界上最优秀的技术博客作者之一（博客地址：http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/）。在本书中，他不仅给我们带来了许多幕后的故事，宝贵的技术建议，还带来了许多启发性的轶事；这些都将帮助你最大程度地理解Windows。..
在本书中，你将了解以下的内容：
·如何设计像自动售货机那样有效的用户界面。
·深入理解窗口和对话框的管理机制。
·为什么性能优化与我们在直觉上的理解很不一样。
·COM对象和Visual C++编译器的薄弱之处。
·向后兼容的关键技术细节——Windows的做法以及这样做的原因。
·大多数开发人员所不知道的Windows程序安全漏洞。
·如何使你的程序更好地在Windows系统中运行，做一个Windows系统的“良好市民”。...
Table of Contents
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
About the Author xxix
Chapter One: Initial Forays into User Interface Design
Why do you have to click the Start button to shut down? 1
Why doesn't Windows have an "expert mode"? 2
The default answer to every dialog box is Cancel 3
The best setting is the one you don't even sense, but it's there, and it works the way you expect 6
In order to demonstrate our superior intellect, we will now ask you a question you cannot answer 7
Why doesn't Setup ask you if you want to keep newer versions of operating system files? 7
Thinking through a feature 9
When do you disable an option, and when do you remove it? 12
When do you put ... after a button or menu? 13
User interface design for vending machines 13
User interface design for interior door locks 15
The evolution of mascara in Windows UI 16
Chapter Two: Selected Reminiscences on Windows 95
Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map? 19
Why didn't Windows 95 boot with more than 1GB of memory? 20
Why did Windows 95 have functions called BEAR, BUNNY, and PIGLET? 22
What about BOZOSLIVEHERE and TABTHETEXTOUTFORWIMPS? 23
What was in the Windows 95 Special Edition box? 25
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone 25
The martial arts logon picture 26
Why a really large dictionary is not a good thing 27
An insight into the Windows 95 startup sound 27
It's a lot easier to write a column if you don't care about accuracy 28
Why does the System Properties page round the memory size? 29
Why does my hard drive light flash every few seconds? 29
The hunt for a faster syscall trap 30
One byte used to cost a dollar 31
Each product-support call costs a sale 32
Why isn't Tweak UI included on the Windows CD? 32
Turns out that you can't install Windows via xcopy 34
Buying an entire Egghead Software store 35
The history of the Windows PowerToys 35
How did Windows choose its final build numbers? 38
Why doesn't the build number increment for service packs? 39
Chapter Three: The Secret Life of GetWindowText
How windows manage their text 41
Enter GetWindowText 42
What if I don't like these rules? 43
Can you give an example where this makes a difference? 44
Why are the rules for GetWindowText so weird? 44
Chapter Four: The Taskbar and Notification Area
Why do some people call the taskbar the "tray"? 47
Why does the taskbar default to the bottom of the screen? 49
Why doesn't the clock in the taskbar display seconds? 50
Why doesn't the taskbar show an analog clock? 51
When I dock my taskbar vertically, why does the word "Start" disappear? 52
Why don't notification icons get a message when the user clicks the "X" button? 52
Chapter Five: Puzzling Interface Issues
What are those little overlay icons? 53
Why are these unwanted files/folders opening when I log on? 54
What do the text label colors mean for files? 56
Why does my advanced options dialog say ON and OFF after every option? 57
What determines the order in which icons appear in the Alt+Tab list? 58
Why is the read-only property for folders so strange? 59
What's with those blank taskbar buttons that go away when I click on them? 59
What is the difference between Minimize All and Show Desktop? 60 What does boldface on a menu mean? 62
Where do those customized Web site icons come from? 62
Where did my task manager tabs and buttons go? 63
Will dragging a file result in a move or a copy? 64
Why does the Links folder keep re-creating itself? 65
Why are documents printed out of order when you multiselect and choose Print? 66
Raymond spends the day doing product support 67
Blow the dust out of the connector 68
How much is that gigabyte in the window? 69
Why can't I remove the "For test/evaluation purposes only" tag? 70
Chapter Six: A History of the GlobalAlloc Function
The early years 71
Selectors 73
Transitioning to Win32 75
A peek at the implementation 76
Chapter Seven: Short Topics in Windows Programming
The scratch program 79
Getting a custom right-click menu for the caption icon 85
What's the difference between CreateMenu and CreatePopupMenu? 86
When does the window manager destroy menus automatically? 88
Painting only when your window is visible onscreen 89
Determining whether your window is covered 93
Using bitmap brushes for tiling effects 95
What is the DC brush good for? 98
Using ExtTextOut to draw solid rectangles 100
Using StretchBlt to draw solid rectangles 102
Displaying a string without those ugly boxes 103
Semaphores don't have owners 110
An auto-reset event is just a stupid semaphore 112
Chapter Eight: Window Management
Why do I get spurious WM_MOUSEMOVE messages? 115
Why is there no WM_MOUSEENTER message? 118
The white flash 118
What is the hollow brush for? 119
What's so special about the desktop window? 120
The correct order for disabling and enabling windows 121
A subtlety in restoring the previous window position 122
UI-modality versus code-modality 123
The WM_QUIT message and modality 126
The importance of setting the correct owner for modal UI 129
Interacting with a program that has gone modal 132
A timed MessageBox, the cheap version 133
The scratch window 135
The bonus window bytes at GWLP_USERDATA 136
A timed MessageBox, the better version 136
A timed context menu 138
Why does my window receive messages after it has been destroyed? 139
Chapter Nine: Reminiscences on Hardware
Hardware backward compatibility 141
The ghost CD-ROM drives 142
The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell 143
When vendors insult themselves 144
Defrauding the WHQL driver certification process 145
A twenty-foot-long computer 146
The USB cart of death 147
New device detected: Boeing 747 147
There's an awful lot of overclocking out there 148
Chapter Ten: The Inner Workings of the Dialog Manager
On the dialog procedure 151
The evolution of dialog templates 163
Why dialog templates, anyway? 196
How dialogs are created 197
The modal dialog loop 204
Nested dialogs and DS_CONTROL 216
Why do we need a dialog loop, anyway? 224
Why do dialog editors start assigning control IDs with 100? 225
What happens inside DefDlgProc? 226
Never leave focus on a disabled control 228
What happens inside IsDialogMessage? 229
Why is the X button disabled on my message box? 237
Chapter Eleven: General Software Issues
Why daylight saving time is nonintuitive 239
Why do timestamps change when I copy files to a floppy? 241
Don't trust the return address 242
Writing a sort comparison function 243
You can read a contract from the other side 245
The battle between pragmatism and purity 249
Optimization is often counterintuitive 250
On a server, paging = death 253
Don't save anything you can recalculate 254
Performance gains at the cost of other components 255
Performances consequences of polling 257
The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks 258
A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak 259
Chapter Twelve: Digging into the Visual C++ Compiler
Do you know when your destructors run? 267
The layout of a COM object 272
Adjustor thunks 274
Pointers to member functions are very strange animals 276
What is __purecall? 280
Chapter Thirteen: Backward Compatibility
Sometimes an app just wants to crash 283
When programs grovel into undocumented structures 284
Why not just block the applications that rely on undocumented behavior? 286
Why 16-bit DOS and Windows are still with us 288
What's the deal with those reserved filenames such as NUL and CON? 290
Why is a drive letter permitted in front of UNC paths (sometimes)? 292
Do not underestimate the power of the game Deer Hunter 293
Sometimes the bug isn't apparent until late in the game 293
The long and sad story of the Shell Folders key 294
The importance of error code backward compatibility 297
Sure, we do that 298
When programs patch the operating system and mess up 299
The compatibility constraints of even your internal bookkeeping 300
Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? 301
Bad version number checks 302
The ways people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface 303
When programs assume that the system will never change, Episode 1 305
When programs assume that the system will never change, Episode 2 306
The decoy Display Control Panel 308
The decoy visual style 309
Chapter Fourteen: Etymology and History
What do the letters W and L stand for in WPARAM and LPARAM? 311
Why was nine the maximum number of monitors in Windows 98? 312
Why is a registry file called a hive? 312
The management of memory for resources in 16-bit Windows 312
What is the difference between HINSTANCE and HMODULE? 313
What was the purpose of the hPrevInstance parameter to WinMain? 316
Why is the GlobalWire function called GlobalWire? 317
What was the difference between LocalAlloc and GlobalAlloc? 318
What was the point of the GMEM_SHARE flag? 320
Why do I sometimes see redundant casts before casting to LPARAM? 321
Why do the names of the registry functions randomly end in Ex? 322
What's the difference between SHGetMalloc, SHAlloc, CoGetMalloc, and CoTaskMemAlloc? 324
Why is Windows Error Reporting nicknamed Dr. Watson? 329
What happened to DirectX 4? 330
Why are HANDLE return values so inconsistent? 331
Why do text files end in Ctrl+Z? 333
Why is the line terminator CR+LF? 334
TEXT vs. _TEXT vs. _T, and UNICODE vs. _UNICODE 335
Why are dialog boxes initially created hidden? 335
When you change the insides, nobody notices 336
If FlushInstructionCache doesn't do anything, why do you have to call it? 337
If InitCommonControls doesn't do anything, why do you have to call it? 338
Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return the sign of the result? 339
Why does the function WSASetLastError exist? 340
Why are there broadcast-based mechanisms in Windows? 340
Where did windows minimize to before the taskbar was invented? 341
Why didn't the desktop window shrink to exclude the taskbar? 343
Why does the caret stop blinking when I tap the Alt key? 343
What is the deal with the ES_OEMCONVERT flag? 345
The story behind file system tunneling 346
Why do NTFS and Explorer disagree on filename sorting? 347
The Date/Time Control Panel is not a calendar 350
How did Windows 95 rebase DLLs? 351
What are SYSTEM_FONT and DEFAULT_GUI_FONT? 353
Why do up-down controls have the arrows backward? 354
A ticket to the Windows 95 launch 355
Chapter Fifteen: How Window Messages Are Delivered and Retrieved
Sent and posted messages 358
The life of a sent message 363
The life of a posted message 364
Generated posted messages 365
When does SendMessageCallback call you back? 368
What happens in SendMessageTimeout when a message times out? 369
Applying what you've learned to some message processing myths 370
How can you tell who sent or posted you a message? 371
You can't simulate keyboard input with PostMessage 371
Chapter Sixteen: International Programming
Case mapping on Unicode is hard 373
An anecdote about improper case mapping 374
Why you can't rotate text 375
What are these directories called 0409 and 1033? 379
Keep your eye on the code page 379
Why is the default 8-bit codepage called "ANSI"? 388
Why is the default console codepage called "OEM"? 388
Why is the OEM code page often called ANSI? 389
Logical but perhaps surprising consequences of converting between Unicode and ANSI 391
Chapter Seventeen: Security
World-writable files 393
Hiding files from Explorer 394
Stealing passwords 395
Silent install of uncertified drivers 396
Your debugging code can be a security hole 397
Why shared sections are a security hole 398
Internet Explorer's Enhanced Security Configuration doesn't trust the intranet 402
Chapter Eighteen: Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Why doesn't the new Start menu use Intellimenus in the All Programs list? 403
Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list? 404
Why does Windows XP Service Pack 2 sometimes forget my CD autoplay settings? 406
The unsafe device removal dialog 407
Two brief reminiscences on the Windows XP Comments? button 408
Why does Explorer eject the CD after you finish burning it? 408
Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector? 409
Psychic debugging: Why your expensive four-processor machine is ignoring three of its processors 410
Psychic debugging: Why your CPU usage is hovering at 50% 411
What's the deal with the DS_SHELLFONT flag? 412
Why does DS_SHELLFONT = DS_FIXEDSYS | DS_SETFONT? 413
What other effects does DS_SHELLFONT have on property sheet pages? 414
Chapter Nineteen: Win32 Design Issues
Why does Win32 fail a module load if an import could not be resolved? 417
Why are structure sizes checked="checked"strictly? 418
Why do I have to return this goofy value for WM_DEVICECHANGE? 421
The arms race between programs and users 422
Why can't you trap TerminateProcess? 424
Why do some processes stay in Task Manager after they've been killed? 424
Understanding the consequences of WAIT_ABANDONED 425
Why can't I put hyperlinks in notification icon balloon tips? 427
Why can't I use the same tree item multiple times? 429
The kooky STRRET structure 429
Why can't you set UTF-8 as your ANSI code page? 431
When should you use a sunken client area? 432
Why is there no all-encompassing superset version of Windows? 433
Why is it even possible to disable the desktop, anyway? 433
What are the window and menu nesting limits? 435
What's the difference between HWND_TOP and HWND_TOPMOST? 435
Chapter Twenty: Taxes
Hierarchical Storage Management 438
Geopolitics 439
Remote Desktop Connection and Painting 440
Fast User Switching and Terminal Services 443
Multiple users 444 Roaming user profiles 445
Redirected folders 447
My Documents vs. Application Data 450
Large address spaces 451
Power management and detecting battery power 455
Intermittent network connectivity 457
Anti-aliased fonts and ClearType 459
High DPI displays 462
Multiple monitors 467
The work area 470
Displaying your pop-up windows in the right place 471
Accessibility 472
Chapter Twenty-One: Silliness
The much-misunderstood "nop" action 481
Don't let Marketing mess with your slides 482
Whimsical bug reports 482
Watch out for those sample URLs 483
No code is an island 484
But I have Visual Basic Professional 485
It's all about the translucent plastic 485
My first death threat 486
You can't escape those AOL CDs 487
Giving fair warning before plugging in your computer 487
Spider Solitaire unseats the reigning champion 488
There's something about Rat Poker 489
Be careful what you name your product group 490
The psychology of naming your internal distribution lists 490
Differences between managers and programmers 491
Using floppy disks as semaphore tokens 492
When a token changes its meaning midstream 492
Whimsical embarrassment as a gentle form of reprimand 493
Using a physical object as a reminder 494
The office disco party 495
The Halloween-themed lobby 495
Index 497
