DDK programming

[Gil Messerman]

Hi, Does anybody has DDK programming expirience and can point to a good resource site where I can start ? Thanks, Gil:zzz:   -------------   Gil Messerman

[Stuart van Weele]

That question is too open ended. What do you want to do?

[Harald Krause]

This is a good start: http://www.osr.com/ bb |~ bb

[Navin]

I hope you have a religion, because you will need a *LOT* of prayer to do any successful DDK programming. :( The DDK is notorious for spotty documentation, quirks, different behaviour on different OSes, and all of that stuff that a typical MFC or .NET prorgrammer doesn't have to worry about. Best of luck to you. It can be hard to find resources, a lot of it is experimentation or learning from examples you find through searching the Web. No single raindrop believes that it is responsible for the flood.

[Tim Deveaux]

http://www.osronline.com/section.cfm?id=26[^] might be helpful. http://www.sysinternals.com/[^] is also good. You'll want to find at least one readable book on the subject though - my 2 cents (CDN): Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model Walter Oney 1999 Microsoft Press IBSN: 0-7356-0588-2 This was the first book I picked up in my quest for kernel mode mastery, but it may not have been the best choice. While it is a good reference, and it fills in some tough to find material, I found it frustrating to get a good overview of the task at hand. Good to have after you’ve gotten started. The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book / device driver handbook Art Baker, Gerry Lozano 2001 Prentice Hall PTR IBSN: 0-13-020431-5 This book contains the most readable presentation of the driver environment I have come across. After a week of struggling through the Walter Oney book, this was a welcome relief, serving to organize and put in perspective the many questions and unresolved references I had accumulated. One of the appendices contains the settings for Visual C++ driver projects - very helpful that. Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 David A. Solomon, Marl Russinovich Microsoft Press ISBN: 0-7356-1021-5 This is about as good as it gets without cracking the Redmond repository – maybe better. Not directly targeted at device driver development, but full of the kind of information that you just don’t get in the MSDN.

[Stuart van Weele]

BTW, have you ordered the DDK CD? You cannot really do anything until you have the DDK installed and AFAIK that means buying the CD (It was about $15 when I ordered it).

[Nick Parker]

Try: Microsoft Windows Driver Development Kits[^]

-Nick Parker DeveloperNotes.com