books on Windows device drivers
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Hi, what books on windows device drivers can you recommend for a newbie to the topic? Askadar
I'm assuming you want to develop for NT/Win2k/XP. I really don't know much about drivers for Win9x... Books Windows NT Device Driver Development - Peter G. Viscarola, W.Anthony Mason Gives a good start in driver development. Shows how to set up the development systems and use tools like WinDbg. Includes nice code samples. Inside Windows 2000 Third edition - David A. Solomon, Mark E. Russinovich A nice introduction to Windows 2000 system mechanics. Seems to be primarly written for advanced system administrators, but contains some nice information for developers too. No code, but lots of system experiments with the kernel debugger (a tool for live debugging included, although it probably must be updated at SysInternals webpage to work). Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference - Gary Nebbett A reference. Wait until you understand the basics, then get this one. Some say the information is to accurate to find out whitout the Windows source code. The author claims he had no such access. Internet SysInternals Webpage Useful, contains a lot of sourcecode. Microsoft DDK page Microsoft is releasing the new version of the DDK (next month, I think). If you have an MSDN subscribtion, you will be able to download for free. Otherwise, try using the old suite until you feel the need to upgrade... Hope this helps. Cheers /moliate
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