Driver Programming Links

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• Device Driver Technical Tips
  This link has tips for NT drivers, VxD's and WDM drivers. It seems that a new tip is added often. Also, Compuware's main driver page is here.
• Intel Secrets
• The DDK-L Email Discussion Group
  This tells more about the list, and contains a link to the archives. There are messages about Win9x, Windows NT, Network and FileSystem drivers.
• Device Driver Development for MS Windows
  A site by the person who brought you the DDK-L list, Dan Norton. When up to date, this site is filled with device driver writing links.
• Plug and Play Specifications
  Information for creators of hardware on the way a device has to react in order to be a plug and play device.
• Driver Details
  An online publication written by Device Drivers International, LLC. This doesn't seem to be updated regularly. There are articles for Windows 95 and NT drivers.
• Jungo.com's resource page
  Holds list of selected sites, newsgroups and tools for device driver development.
• Microsoft's Windows DDK support
  A Microsoft support site for DDK users.
• Microsoft's General Driver Dev page

MS DOS Drivers

• Ralf Brown's MS-DOS interupt list

Windows XP Drivers

• Microsoft's Whister Driver page

Windows 95, VxD's

• Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.vxd
• Windows 98 DDK

The following are links to Knowledge base articles.

• Disable Plug and Play for a Serial Hardware Device

Windows NT, Kernel Drivers

• Newsgroup: microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
• Newsgroup:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode
• Windows 2000 DDK
• NT kernel-mode driver FAQ
• INTEC DDK Group
  Contains a NT device driver FAQ as well as a list of problems with the DDK. There are also some undocumented functions listed.
• Windows NT Device Drivers
  This link is a short introduction to writing NT device drivers. There is even sample code.
• The Windows NT Device Driver Cookbook
  This is a page for programmers of a ConSys project. It was written for them, but it might be useful for general information.
• NDIS FAQ
• OSR Ioctl decoder
  Type in the IOCTL code that you have found, and get the driver, transfer type, and type of access.

The following links are to Knowledge Base articles

• Mapping NT status codes to Win32 error codes
• WinNT Drivers Built with VC++ 5.0 Require Updated WinDbg

NT and Serial Device Drivers


• Microsoft USB Point-of-Sale
  A driver that exposes USB POS interfaces as serial COM ports.
• Updating Serial Device Drivers for Windows NT 5.0
• Source code to a NT Serial Filter driver
  This code was from an article by Sven Schreiber in Windows Developer Journal, Feb 1997 entitled "A COM Spy NT Filter Driver". Other source code samples from Windows Developers Journal are available here.
• Communications: Serial and Parallel ports
  This is Microsoft's new area to place serial port information. It is pretty empty now, but I am putting a link in case they start filling it up.

The following are links to Knowledge Base Articles

• Detecting Windows NT Serial Ports

WDM Drivers

• WinHEC 2000 Driver Resources
  Microsoft has made a page of all the various different sessions and tools that were given during WinHEC 2000. Lots of useful info and tools are here.
• Windows Driver Model Article
  Written by the same author of "Windows NT Device Drivers", Chris Cant
• WDM: Introduction to the Win32 Driver Model
• Walter Oney's White papers on WDM.
• Ask Dr. Iver
• Digital Signatures for WHQL-Tested Drivers
• Guidelines for Handling Plug and Play IRPs
• OnNow: Introduction and Specifications
  This is a very complete page that contains links to explanations about what OnNow is, tools to help development, and links to the newest ACPI spec.

WDM and USB


• USB Central
  Information, tools and links to material about the USB
• WDM USB interface
• Handling Bulk Data Transfer in a USB mindriver
• USB-Software Support
  This page has a link to a sample skeleton WDM driver, as well as firmware and other helpful information.
• WDM USB Video Streaming Driver - A whitepaper, by California Software Laboratories, on how to write a filter driver.
• USB Developers Information Site
• USB Newsgroup
  A message board to discuss USB development problems and suggestions.
• USB and game devices
  This information is not very exciting. It more or less explaining a quick overview of the direction Direct Input will be going, and how it will get there.
• Understanding USB part 2
  An article by John Canosa of Questra Consulting
• Embedded Systems Conference Classes
  Check out the two USB conferences available from John Canosa on this page

WDM and HID


• WDM: Human Interface Device Class Support
• Designing HID controllers for Direct Input
• Button usage for HID devices
• USB-IF HID Developers web page
  This contains a few useful applications, like HIDView, and HID Descriptor Tool(which allows easy creation of Descriptor tables).
• Microsoft's HID page
  Microsoft has created this page to hold HID information.
• Developing HID Minidrivers for Non-USB Devices
  Finally, a page explaining how to do a HID minidriver.

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