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Shows programmers how to build networked applications that leverage 32-bit features and functionality. Coverage includes strategies for building successful applications; discussion of overlapped I/O, I/O completion ports, Windows Sockets (including Winsock 2), the Service Registration API, the Win32 Security API, RPC, and Named Pipes; and how to apply the Microsoft Foundation Classes and object-oriented programming principles to Win32 network programming and use them to hide the differences between Windows NT and Windows 95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.