DriverPackageInstall() or InetCfg ?

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DriverPackageInstall() or InetCfg ?
Why two API’s family to load network driver ?
What point i am missing. can you correct me with appropriate one?

NOTE: Don’t Hate me. I have not done nothing except making some thread over and over again because i was not getting answer and i was not reading documentation.

Kind and Best of Regards,

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xxxxx@hotmail.com wrote:

DriverPackageInstall() or InetCfg ?
Why two API’s family to load network driver ?
What point i am missing. can you correct me with appropriate one?

There are often several ways to do a given task in Windows. The Windows
design is more than 30 years old. It has had thousands of programmers
from several different generations. There’s an old adage that “a
programmer never trusts code he didn’t write”, so we keep reinventing
things.

INetCfg does have a lot more network-specific functions than
DriverPackageInstall. It just happens to support that one function as well.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Don’t make threads over and over again on this list. Ever. For any reason.

And NEVER fail to read the documentation before posting to this list. Ever. We’re not here to provide you with a dramatic rendition of the MSDN docs.

If you have a specific question or issue, bring it. Be clear and specific about your question or issue. If you just don’t know what you’re doing… take a class, or find a senior person to work with you one on one. The list can’t provide either of those things.

Now I’m locking this thread. I am becoming less amused by every things started by you, Mr. Hill, that I have to lock. Forewarned is… forewarned.

Peter
OSR
@OSRDrivers