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Most of the sample applications can be compiled as either ANSI or Unicode. This book is about writing services for Windows 2000, so Unicode is the default because it allows the application to use less memory and run faster. However, if you want to use the code in your own ANSI applications, you can do so.

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Over time, Microsoft has added more and more Unicode-only features to the operating system. For example, the Net functions for managing trustee accounts discussed in Chapter 9 support only Unicode strings. Because these functions appear in my code, some of the sample applications in this book will compile only for Unicode. For more information on Unicode, see Chapter 2 of Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows, Fourth Edition.