So this is more of a technical Windows question than a programming question, but I've just been given the twelve hour job of picking up where someone left off before going on vacation and making sure ...

Just wondered how you guys learned the Windows API. I'm reading Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold right now. So far it seems to be a pretty decent book as far as programming goes.

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...