Windows 64-bit Assembly Language Programming Quick Start is a complete tutorial using the free Community Edition of Microsoft Visual Studio 17 to introduce the novice to the Intel X86-64 architecture and the Windows X64 Calling Convention. With Microsoft Visual Studio 17, assembly language programs can be built using either its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or using its ML64 assembler directly in a traditional command line approach. Both techniques are presented in this book, and each has its own merits for gaining a deeper understanding of computer software and hardware. The assistance provided by Visual Studio's interactive debugger is immense not only for developing real programs but also learning how the CPU instructions work.