Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers


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Software developer and author Karen Hazzah expands her original treatise on device drivers in the second edition of Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers. The book and companion disk include the author's library of wrapper functions that allow the progrWriting Windows VxDs and Device Drivers Review
I needed to write a basic driver that an application could access through standard Win32 API's - CreatFile, OpenFile, ReadFile, WriteFile, etc. While the author does indeed provide lots of samples that are easy to follow and will work, - they are limited to use for custom or special-purpose I/O access. There is no discussion about the varios types of file or IO systems and types of drivers - i.e., File System Drivers (FSD), Input/Output Supervisor (IOS), Communications (COMM), Miniport, MCI, etc. There is no discussion about how to install & register your driver properly, creation of INF files, etc. So who is this book written for? Hacks that simply want a quick way to access hardware without creating system errors. It is not for engineers that want to create an installable device driver for a common I/O devices and distribute it with their hardware so that it will work seamlessly with the operating system and other existing, professionaly written, application software. If you need to create a driver for a standard I/O device already supported by Microsoft API's, keep looking. If you have a custom i/o board and a low-level driver that can access it & handle interrupts, but plan on providing your own high-level custom API software so your customers can access it (i.e., a proprietary solution), this is for you. Good luck!Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers ...

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