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Does anyone have any books/tutorials which may be useful in getting started in Windows device driver development?

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For plain Win32/GUI development, Petzold's book seems to be the essential reference. Does such exist for drivers?

I would like to note that I'm not actually talking to hardware -- I actually want to emulate a piece of hardware in software, but I'd like to see how things work in general first.

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One thing to beware of is the device driver development (architecture and tools) changes more than Win32 development .. so while Petzold's book from the 1990s is fine for Win32 and may be considered a timeless classic, the architecture for many kinds of drivers (printer drivers, network drivers, etc.) has varied in various O/S releases.

Here's a blog entry which reviews various books: Windows Device Drivers Book Reviews.

Don't forget the microsoft documentation included with the DDK: and, most importantly, the sample drivers (source code) included with the DDK. When I wanted to write a mock serial port driver, for example, I found the sample serial driver documentation combined with the DDK documentation was invaluable (and sufficient).

ChrisWChrisW

To learn kernel development well:

a. lots of samples kernel programs:

Windows DDK sample:

WDK samples:

Or just search:

(because above URL may change, but Google will likely to return u the most appropriate/reachable one)

b. lots of debugging techniques, and among which I found the best is VMware (or VirtualBox) + windbg + serial port debugging:

and this paper is classic for using VMWare + windbg (Lord of the Ring0):

c. as well as system admin tools which others have built:

(In the past called SysInternals built by Mark Russinovich, co-author of 'Windows Internal' - MUST READ!!)

from these tools u have will immense debugging options.

d. Join the OSR mailing list (ntdev especially is very active, but there are others like windbg):

e. Watch lots of video related to windows + kernel at channel9 (google returned over 1000 links):

f. Discussion forum like:

Subscribed to the free OSR magazine too (hardcopy). I have received mine since 1998 till now - and it is delivered half-way round the earth!

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I would search for tutorials with rich examples, like this one. The essence in windows driver development is to get the picture about layers and IRPs, IRQLs, and also to know terms like filter drivers. If you are looking for example codes, here is my Spodek driver code: sf.net link. You will find there a filter driver (for keyboard, keyb.c), kernel space queue (queue.c) and techniques to hide presence in system. It's a legacy (sys) driver though.

You should probably use the quite recent Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) framework instead of the older WDM framework. A good starting point is reading the WDF Overview Word documents.

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Personally the best way to start developing is by real-world exposure. Having this in mind I'd recomment this book

It should be enough to get you started to have some code running which does 'something' then after you have the general picture you might dwell on topics such as - Difference between Buffered/Neither/Direct methods and the peculiarities associated with them.

'Programming the windows driver model, 2nd edition' is also a great help when you need details regarding some specific topics. But first I believe the most important thing is to put things into context and then build on that.

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