- beginners help
- Posted by dd on February 29th, 2008
i am looking for some basic book for beginners on windows driver. as i am
working on wddm driver on which no book has been written till now, so just to
start of which book should I refer.
I also want to know the difference between windows driver foundation and
windows driver model and which model is going to be used in future
technology.
I think its too novice to ask such type of question but i am totally confused
with these terms
regards
- Posted by Maxim S. Shatskih on February 29th, 2008
WDM is like USER/GDI, and WDF is like MFC - a wrapping framework.
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- Posted by Doron Holan [MSFT] on February 29th, 2008
the 2 books at there for driver developers that are worth reading (IMO) are
Oney's WDM book and Orwick's WDF book. you can find both on amazon
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- Posted by David Craig on February 29th, 2008
I would recommend a third book, though somewhat outdated shows how some of
the stacks work better than the later books. That one is the Viscarola and
Mason book about NT4. I would say it should be read after reading the other
books to understand the underpinnings of the OS. It gives you a much better
understanding of DMA since that is one of Peter's specialties.
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- Posted by Calvin Guan on March 1st, 2008
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WDDM API doesn't follow WDM or WDF, but books as others suggested are good.
WDM is like win32 and WDF is like MFC. WDF hides a lot of dirty laundry even
many of their own driver writers have no clue how to mess with correctly.
Neither. Just like MFC .net, and there will be .netEx someday.
Microsoft would say one day: "Listen, WDF is no good any more, you've gotta
learn WWF which is the greatest and we won't certify drivers written for WDF
from now on...". Good to keep us employed though.
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- Posted by dd on March 3rd, 2008
Thanks to you all for replying
regards
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