Links

CodeGuru
Here you'll find lots of ready to use code solutions, interesting articles and can ask for help in various forums. The Visual C++ forum gets several hundreds messages a day – greater than any other programming forum I know.

RSDN - Russian Developer Network
This is a Russian-language site aimed for professional software developers. While this site is relatively young, it is rapidly growing. RSDN got unique forums, with nice UI and smart tags, you'll never see such forums on any other site. And, you can find me speaking Russian on these forums.

MSDN Search Page
You are not familiar with this page? Add it to your favorities right now and learn how to use it. Answers for even most complicated questions can be found in 15 minutes in the Microsoft Knowlege Base. Don't waste your time asking a question on forums and newsgroups just to receive a link to a knowledge base article, find it yourself!

Keith Brown's homepage
Keith Brown is the author of Programming Windows Security book, the most comprehensive Windows security book for programmers. His COM Security FAQ will save you from racking your brains next time you get E_ACCESSDENIED from an interface method.

Felix Kasza's Win32 samples
Felix Kasza's Win32 samples cover most poorly understood Win32 functions, including NetAPI functions, security functions and others. The fksec library deserves a special note: it provides an object based interface to security descriptors, ACLs, ACEs and SIDs.

Sysinternals Freeware
The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows 9x, Windows Me, and Windows NT/2000 internals that you won't find anywhere else. The site is maintained by Mark Russinovich, the coauthor of Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 book, and Bryce Cogswell.