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Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 Initial Forays into User Interface Design

Chapter 2 Selected Reminiscences on Windows 95

Chapter 3 The Secret Life of GetWindowText

Chapter 4 The Taskbar and Notification Area

Chapter 5 Puzzling Interface Issues

Chapter 6 A History of the GlobalLock Function

Chapter 7 Short Topics in Windows Programming

Chapter 8 Window Management

Chapter 9 Reminiscences on Hardware

Chapter 10 The Inner Workings of the Dialog Manager

Chapter 11 General Software Issues

Chapter 12 Digging into the Visual C++ Compiler

Chapter 13 Backward Compatibility

Chapter 14 Etymology and History

Chapter 15 How Window Messages Are Delivered and Retrieved

Chapter 16 International Programming

Chapter 17 Security

Chapter 18 Reminiscences on Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Chapter 19 Win32 Design Issues

Chapter 20 Taxes

Chapter 21 Silliness