The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book

An authoritative guide to Windows NT driver development, now completely revised and updated. The CD-ROM includes all source code, plus Microsoft hardware standards documents, demo software, and more.

Master the new Windows Driver Model (WDM) common to Windows 98 and Windows 2000. You get theory, instruction and practice in driver development, installation and debugging. Addresses hardware and software interface issues, driver types, and a description of the new 'layer' model of WDM. ;

This is a guide book with software for programmers writing device drivers for Windows NT. This is the only book and sample software available on Device Drivers--NT.

The Microsoft Windows driver model (WDM) supports Plug and Play, provides power management capabilities, and expands on the driver/minidriver approach. Written by long-time device-driver expert Walter Oney in cooperation with the Windows kernel team, this book provides extensive practical examples, illustrations, advice, and line-by-line analysis of code samples to clarify real-world driver-programming issues. And it's been updated with the latest details about the driver technologies in Windows XP and Windows 2000, plus more information about how to debug drivers. Topics covered include: Beginning a driver project and the structure of a WDM driver; NEW: Minidrivers and class drivers, driver taxonomy, the WDM development environment and tools, management checklist, driver selection and loading, approved API calls, and driver stacks Basic programming techniques; NEW: Safe string functions, memory limits, the Driver Verifier scheme and tags, the kernel handle flag, and the Windows 98 floating-point problem Synchronization; NEW: Details about the interrupt request level (IRQL) scheme, along with Windows 98 and Windows Me compatibility The I/O request packet (IRP) and I/O control operations; NEW: How to send control operations to other drivers, custom queue implementations, and how to handle and safely cancel IRPs Plug and Play for function drivers; NEW: Controller and multifunction devices, monitoring device removal in user mode, Human Interface Devices (HID), including joysticks and other game controllers, minidrivers for non-HID devices, and feature reports Reading and writing data, power management, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) NEW: System wakeup, the WMI control for idle detection, and using WMIMOFCK Specialized topics and distributing drivers; NEW: USB 2.0, selective suspend, Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) certification, driver selection and loading, officially approved API calls, and driver stacks COVERS WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS ME, WINDOWS 2000, AND WINDOWS XP! CD-ROM FEATURES: A fully searchable electronic copy of the book Sample code in Microsoft Visual C++ For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

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Master the new Windows Driver Model (WDM) common to Windows 98 and Windows 2000. You get theory, instruction and practice in driver development, installation and debugging. Addresses hardware and software interface issues, driver types, and a description of the new 'layer' model of WDM. ;

Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference is absolutely unique. Currently, documentation on WIndows NT's native APIs can only be found through access to the source code or occasionally Web sites where people have chosen to share bits of insight gained through reverse engineering. This book provides the first complete reference to the API functions native to Windows NT and covers the set of services that are offered by Windows NT to both kernel- and user-mode programs. Ideal for the intermediate and advanced level user- and kernel-mode developers of Windows systems, this books is devoted to the NT native API and consists of documentation of the 210 routines included in the API. Also included are all the functions added in Windows 2000.

For developers who must know and understand the fundamentals to be able to apply the more advanced aspects that will emerge with NT 5, here is an in-depth book to the rescue, covering the core techniques of programming NT device drivers.