The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book - Softcover

Baker, Art; Lozano, Jerry

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9780130204318: The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130204315 ISBN 13: 9780130204318

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

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The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book can lead any experienced Windows programmer through every step of device driver development: planning, implementation, testing, debugging, installation, and distribution. Thoroughly updated to reflect Microsoft's Windows Driver Model (WDM) for Windows 2000 and 98, it covers everything from architecture to tools, and includes a powerhouse library of exclusive tools and C and C++ code for streamlining device driver projects. Starting with a high-level overview of WDM components, the book quickly moves into the details of the development environment and driver installation. Master the I/O Manager, its data structures, and its interaction with drivers. Understand Plug and Play and Power Management through extensive practical examples; learn how to construct safe reentrant driver code; log errors and events using Windows Management Instrumentation; utilize kernel-mode threads; layered drivers; and more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes sample drivers, C++ classes to jumpstart your projects, driver installation utilities, even an exclusive device driver AppWizard!

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From the Back Cover:

The #1 Windows device driver book―fully updated for Windows 2000!
Step-by-step planning, implementation, testing, debugging, installation, and distribution
Complete coverage of the new Windows Driver Model (WDM)
Practical debugging and interactive troubleshooting
CD-ROM: Exclusive tools for streamlining driver development, plus extensive C/C++ sample driver library!
Windows Driver Model (WDM) for Windows 2000 and 98―in depth!
Building drivers that support Plug-and-Play and Power Management
Windows Management Instrumentation: logging device errors and events―and interpreting them
Constructing safe reentrant driver code
Handling time-out conditions safely and effectively
Advanced techniques: kernel-mode threads, layered drivers, and more
Start-to-finish debugging and troubleshooting techniques

Foreword by Andrew Scoppa, UCI Corporation

The #1 book on Windows driver development―totally updated for Windows 2000!

With The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book, any experienced Windows programmer can master driver development start to finish: planning, implementation, testing, debugging, installation, and distribution. Totally updated to reflect Microsoft's Windows Driver Model (WDM) for Windows 2000 and 98, this programming bestseller covers everything from architecture to tools, and includes a powerhouse library of exclusive tools and code for streamlining any driver development project.

You'll start with a high-level overview of WDM components and then move quickly into the details of the development environment and driver installation. Next, master the Windows 2000 I/O Manager, its data structures, and its interaction with drivers. Using extensive practical examples, you'll implement Plug-and-Play and Power Management; construct safe reentrant driver code; use Windows Management Instrumentation to log errors and events, and more.

The book covers today's most advanced Windows driver development techniques and provides extensive debugging guidance, including crash dump analysis using WinDbg; lists of common bugcheck codes, meanings, and probable causes; and much more.

About the CD-ROM

Bonus CD-ROM contains powerful resources for streamlining device driver development!

An exclusive Device Driver AppWizard that works with Visual Studio to instantly create your driver's framework
A library of complete sample drivers
C++ classes to jumpstart any project-including a Unicode string handling class that eliminates tedious, repetitive code
An exclusive Driver Installation Utility to simplify initial testing

UCI

UCI Software Training Centers specializes in high-end developer, systems, and Internet Training on Microsoft products and technologies. For more information about training in this topic and others, UCI can be reached at 800-884-1772, or on the Web at www.ucitraining.com

About the Author:

ART BAKER, founder of Cydonix Corporation, has spent 30 years writing device-control software. For 15 years, he has trained professional developers to write device drivers.

JERRY LOZANO is an Electrical Engineer and has been writing low-level device and OS code since 1976. For several years, he has been training and consulting on Microsoft system tools and development.

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