Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation

Description

Start developing robust drivers with expert guidance from the teams who developed Windows Driver Foundation. This comprehensive book gets you up to speed quickly and goes beyond the fundamentals to help you extend your Windows development skills. You get best practices, technical guidance, and extensive code samples to help you master the intricacies of the next-generation driver model - and simplify driver development.

Discover how to:

* Use the Windows Driver Foundation to develop kernel-mode or user-mode drivers
* Create drivers that support Plug and Play and power management - with minimal code
* Implement robust I/O handling code
* Effectively manage synchronization and concurrency in driver code
* Develop user-mode drivers for protocol-based and serial-bus-based devices
* Use USB-specific features of the frameworks to quickly develop drivers for USB devices
* Design and implement kernel-mode drivers for DMA devices
* Evaluate your drivers with source code analysis and static verification tools
* Apply best practices to test, debug, and install drivers

PLUS - Get driver code samples on the Web

CONTENTS:

ForewordAcknowledgmentsPart I: Getting Started with WDF
* Chapter 1: Introduction to WDF
* Chapter 2: Windows Driver Fundamentals
* Chapter 3: WDF FundamentalsPart II: Exploring the Frameworks
* Chapter 4: Overview of the Driver Frameworks
* Chapter 5: WDF Object Model
* Chapter 6: Driver Structure and InitializationPart III: Applying WDF Fundamentals
* Chapter 7: Plug and Play and Power Management
* Chapter 8: I/O Flow and Dispatching
* Chapter 9: I/O Targets
* Chapter 10: Synchronization
* Chapter 11: Driver Tracing and Diagnosability
* Chapter 12: WDF Support Objects
* Chapter 13: UMDF Driver TemplatePart IV: Additional Topics for KMDF Drivers
* Chapter 14: Beyond the Frameworks
* Chapter 15: Scheduling, Thread Context, and IRQL
* Chapter 16: Hardware Resources and Interrupts
* Chapter 17: Direct Memory Access
* Chapter 18: An Introduction to COMPart V: Building, Installing, and Testing a WDF Driver
* Chapter 19: How to Build WDF Drivers
* Chapter 20: How to Install WDF Drivers
* Chapter 21: Tools for Testing WDF Drivers
* Chapter 22: How to Debug WDF Drivers
* Chapter 23: PREfast for Drivers
* Chapter 24: Static Driver VerifierGlossaryMicrosoft Press Support Information