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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