Description
This practical, hands-on course focuses on design and development skills for the Microsoft Windows environment. A large set of the Win32 and Win64 Application Programming Interface is explored. This course is appropriate for those performing system-level programming for Windows 95/98/ME/2000.

Audience
Windows developers seeking to build client applications, server components, and Windows services with the Win32/Win64 API, ATL, and ADSI.

Prerequisites
Attendees should have C programming experience or attendance at Arkoa’s C Programming course. C++ programming experience or attendance at Arkoa's C++ Programming course is also helpful.

Hardware and Software
A PC for each student loaded with Windows 95/98/ME/2000 and a C/C++ compiler suitable for that platform.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Hands-on
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Design and build a basic Windows graphical application
• Take advantage of COM and COM+
• Understand Windows security
• Work with virtual memory and the heap
• Create and manage processes and threads
• Design and build basic Windows services
• Utilize files and pipes for input and output
• Manage the Active Directory with ADSI

Windows Concepts

• Windows system architecture
• Windows Distributed iNternet Architecture
• Programming concepts

Building Applications

• Build steps and settings
• Make files

Basic Windows Graphical Programming

• Program layout
• The window procedure
• Registering classes
• Creating windows
• Processing messages and message loops
• Basic GDI functions and the display context

Unicode and the Win32 API

Graphical Interfaces Elements

• Menus and accelerators
• Controls and resources
• Dialogs

Structured Exception Handling

• Termination and exception handlers
• Interoperability of Win32 SEH and C++ exception handling

File I/O

• General file operations and asynchronous I/O

Memory Management

Processes, Threads, and Synchronization

Anonymous and Named Pipes

Dynamic Link Libraries

• Creating DLLs
• Loading and using DLLs

Windows Security

• Windows security overview
• Security Structures
• Impersonating a client

Writing Windows 2000 Services

• Managing services
• Programming services
• The event log

COM

• COM architecture and threading models
• Custom COM objects

COM+ Services

• Designing and developing transactional components
• Queued components

Active Directory

• Introduction to Active Directory
• ADSI COM-based API