The workbook and disk package provides programmers with a jump start on understanding the Win32 API. Extensive illustrations and programming exercises guide the reader porting Win16 to Win32, processes and threads, synchronization, inter-process communication, memory management, DLLs, structured exception handling and debugging, GDI enhancements, program optimization, and file I/O. Platt teaches Window programming at Harvard U. Extension and at companies around the world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.