Olivier Langlois's blog

I have loved this book. It is much more easier to read than the more detailed book Windows Internals but still give you a good overall understanding on how Windows works. After having read this book, the cryptic access violation error messages suddenly made more sense. The most enlightning chapters of the book are the ones discussing how the OS manages the process memory space and how a process is launched. Do not get fooled thinking that because the book is on NT that its information is outdated. Not much has changed since and its content is still accuratly accurate.

To be honest, I have never had the chance to get my hand on this book because of his high price. It his on my wish list and has good reviews.

This book is to MFC what Programming for Windows is for the Win32 API. I would call it the MFC bible. There is a lot of MFC books out there but Programming Windows with MFC is one of the best. If you are serious about MFC, you should consider adding this one to your references collection.

In this subcategory, I present books that I have found very useful to read that are now unfortunatly out of print and because of the scarcity of these items, I have seen them on sale for several hundred of dollars on the used book market. Sometime these books are offered at bargain prices so check the price and if any of them could be of interest to you, you should jump on the occasion.