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Best recent Windows Device Drivers book ?

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    Best recent Windows Device Drivers book ?

    Hi,

    The MS pages for Windows Driver development reference the book "Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation" (ISBN 0735623740) but this dates from 2007. Anyone know a decent more recent book that deals with modern Windows Driver development ?

    Thanks,

    Boo

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    Out of interest what sort of hardware are you wanting to write a device driver for?

    For most peripherals, they go the USB route, meaning it is relatively easy to write.

    I don't know of any recent books on the subject. Is there not enough on MSDN?

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/lib...=vs.85%29.aspx

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      #3
      WHS. Books? How quaint!

      I had to create a Windows driver recently; something I'd never done before, but I just built the relevant sample from MSDN and worked from there. Learning how to setup the environment was the hardest bit - using a VM made it a lot easier.
      Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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        #4
        Yes, there's loads of stuff on the MS website but I like books partly because you can read them without being on the pooter and partly because I just like books.

        I know about the driver examples downloads and the CE versions of VS do make it easy to use the WDK but I am looking for well laid out background reading as I often find that you only end up partially knowing the subject if you try to learn it from examples, theory is useful too.

        Thanks for the replies,

        Boo

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