Yosifovich Pavel. Windows 10 System Programming, Part 1

Lean Publishing, 2020. — viii, 620 p. — ISBN 1196068259, 2147483647.
The book uses the documented Windows Application Programming Interface (API) to leverage system-level facilities, including processes, threads, synchronization primitives, virtual memory and I/O.
The book is intended for software developers that target the Windows platform, and need to have a level of control not achievable by higher-level frameworks and libraries. The book uses C and C++ for code examples, as the Windows API is mostly C-based. C++ is used where it makes sense, where its advantages are obvious in terms of maintenance, clarity, resource management, and any combination of the above. The book does not use non-trivial C++ constructs, such as template metaprogramming. The book is not about C++, it’s about Windows.