Writing Windows Virtural Device Drivers (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Thielen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020148921X ISBN 13: 9780201489217

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995

Synopsis

Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers introduces the concepts of virtual device drivers and shows how to write VxDs in both C and assembly language. Fully-commented complete working source code examples demonstrate how to write a VxD to talk to any hardware device and show the wealth of tricks you can perform with VxDs, including interprocess communication.

About this title

About the Author

Bryan Woodruff is a software design engineer and writer. David Thielen is a Senior Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation and is a monthly columnist for Windows Tech Journal, C Journal, and .EXE.David Thielen is a software engineer at Microsoft and a regular contributor to Microsoft Systems Journal.

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From the Back Cover

Virtual device drivers (also known as VxDs) allow Windows developers to access undreamed of power in their programs. If you want to write programs that have direct access to hardware devices, can interface to vital CPU functions, or can take over parts of the operating system, then welcome to the world of VxDs.

Written by experts in the field, David Thielen and Bryan Woodruff, Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers introduces the concepts of virtual device drivers and shows how to write VxDs in both C and assembly language. Fully-commented complete working source code examples demonstrate how to write a VxD to talk to any hardware device and show the wealth of tricks you can perform with VxDs, including interprocess communication.

An extensive appendix provides an encyclopedic reference for the Virtual Machine Manager, the preemptive multitasking kernel at the heart of Windows, and system VxD services and macros.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020148921X
• ISBN 13: 9780201489217
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 670