Writing Windows Interfaces to Non-standard Hardware - Softcover

Hazzah, Kare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131001817 ISBN 13: 9780131001817

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1994

Synopsis

Finally - here is a practical book that helps you write Windows VxDs and device drivers - without wasting your time in arcane API trivia!
Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers is a true teaching book, not a compilation of Microsoft API references. Karen Hazzah guides you through a sequence of progressively more sophisticated drivers - each designed to illustrate a capability you'll need when writing your own high-performance drivers - and leads you into the mysterious world of VxDs, custom extensions to the operating system that will "go anywhere and do anything.": write a basic polled-mode driver in C - the easiest method for interfacing a windows application to a hardware device; write an interrupt-driven driver, also in C, for better performance and throughput than the basic polled-mode driver and write a VxD driver, a high-performance solution that also provides an interface for both Windows and DOS applications.

About this title

Synopsis

Showing programmers how to write Windows drivers for any type of hardware such as scanners, data acquisition devices and bar code readers, this book focuses on how to communicate with the hardware: accessing the devices (memory mapped and I/O mapped), handling hardware interrupts and communicating with real mode TSRs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0131001817
• ISBN 13: 9780131001817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300