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Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation

By Penny Orwick, Guy Smith
Published Apr 25, 2007 by Microsoft Press. Part of the Developer Reference series.

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Copyright 2007
Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9"
Pages: 936
Edition: 1st

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ISBN-10: 0-7356-2374-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-2374-3

Start developing robust drivers with expert guidance from the teams who developed Windows Driver Foundation. This comprehensive book gets you up to speed quickly and goes beyond the fundamentals to help you extend your Windows development skills. You get best practices, technical guidance, and extensive code samples to help you master the intricacies of the next-generation driver model—and simplify driver development.

Discover how to:

Use the Windows Driver Foundation to develop kernel-mode or user-mode drivers

Create drivers that support Plug and Play and power management—with minimal code

Implement robust I/O handling code

Effectively manage synchronization and concurrency in driver code

Develop user-mode drivers for protocol-based and serial-bus-based devices

Use USB-specific features of the frameworks to quickly develop drivers for USB devices

Design and implement kernel-mode drivers for DMA devices

Evaluate your drivers with source code analysis and static verification tools

Apply best practices to test, debug, and install drivers

PLUS—Get driver code samples on the Web

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