According to the IDC, Windows NT/2000 is experiencing a 25% compound annual growth rate, translating into 26.9 billion of revenue. Divided into 5 parts, this book provides broad coverage of every relevant development topic of Windows 2000 including Active Directory, COM+ and security features. Includes notes for UNIX programmers throughout the book, highlighting key concepts that differ between developing for UNIX and Windows 2000--this is of great help to those transitioning to the Windows platform. CD is a complete toolkit, containing executable files from examples and all of the source code from book.