Windows Win32 API
- Category
- Operating systems and internals
- Docs outline
- 11 sections
Official docs outline
learn.microsoft.com- Win32 API overview
Entry point to the Windows API documentation.
- Processes and threads
CreateProcess, threads and scheduling.
- Synchronization
Mutexes, events, critical sections and SRW locks.
- Memory management
Virtual memory, heaps and file mapping.
- File management
CreateFile, overlapped IO and file systems.
- Interprocess communications
Pipes, mailslots and shared memory.
- Windows Sockets 2
Winsock functions such as WSAStartup, socket, bind and overlapped IO.
- Windows and messages
Window classes, messages and message loop.
- Security and identity
Authentication and access control.
- Registry
Registry keys, values, hives and APIs such as RegOpenKeyEx and RegSetValueEx.
- Debugging and error handling
Structured exception handling and debug API.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.