"Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers" Book - Missing 'CD ROM'

OSR_Community_User · January 31, 2011, 12:00pm

Hi,
I’ve just bought the excellent “Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers” Book but the ‘CD ROM’ is missing. Is there anywhere I can locate one please?
Thanks
Brian

Don_Burn_1 · January 31, 2011, 12:32pm

Be aware this book has a HUGE number of technical inaccuracies. A group
of driver dev’s were together once and played the game of randomly
opening the book to a two page spread and reading it for errors. The
error count was never zero, and I believe got to 14.

Unfortunately the CD is marked do not reproduce, so I am not sure you
will get the sample. You might try contacting the author at
http://www.phdcc.com/

Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr

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> Hi,
> I’ve just bought the excellent “Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers” Book but the ‘CD ROM’ is missing. Is there anywhere I can locate one please?
> Thanks
> Brian

OSR_Community_User · January 31, 2011, 12:42pm

Thanks Don, I take your point but the code might have helped me see the basics. THere does not seem to be any contact details on www.phdcc.com anymore but I’ll keep looking. It was the parallel port byte read / write examples that I was looking for…
Kind Regards,
BRian

Alex_Grig · January 31, 2011, 3:39pm

Sorry you spent money on it. Just discard that book and get Walter Oney’s book instead…

Maxim_S_Shatskih · January 31, 2011, 3:43pm

> I’ve just bought the excellent “Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers”

Who is the author?

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Windows DDK MVP
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Don_Burn_1 · January 31, 2011, 3:51pm

Max,

The author is Chris Cant, the book is terrible, the second worst
Windows Driver book out there.

Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr

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Peter_Viscarola_OSR · January 31, 2011, 3:54pm

From a mini-review in The NT Insider, originally published in 1999:

http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=176

This book, released in 1999, addresses only the WDM environment (though there is a single chapter that briefly describes the native NT driver model). We reviewed the first printing.

If you?re looking for good, solid, device or hardware information (a la Dekker and Newcomer) or detailed operating system architecture information (a la Viscarola and Mason) you?ll have to look elsewhere. We think this book might be more appropriately titled ?Introduction to WDM for Win32 Programmers.? It assumes very little prerequisite knowledge and goes into very little detail ? even less than the Baker book. DMA gets two pages, in Appendix C. MDLs never get explained anywhere. In general, the text is imprecise in its use of language and sometimes inaccurate (MDLs, the reader is told are ?only available to hardware that can perform Direct Memory Access?).

If you?re a Win32 programmer, or a technology manager, looking to understand the basics of the world of drivers, this book might work for you. On the other hand, if you need to know how to write a device driver for a real device, it won?t be necessary for you to add this book to your bookshelf.

Peter
OSR

Maxim_S_Shatskih · February 1, 2011, 2:41am

> The author is Chris Cant, the book is terrible

Oh, well, not Walter Oney. Walter’s book is good.

–
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP

xxxxx@storagecraft.com

http://www.storagecraft.com

OSR_Community_User · February 1, 2011, 3:23am

Alex wrote: RE: “Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers” Book - Missing ‘CD ROM’

Sorry you spent money on it. Just discard that book and get Walter Oney’s book
instead…

THanks Alex. I’m looking for something that gives me a REALLY simple and up-to-date method to do nothing but I/O access to a parall port. I’m quite prepared to pay for a good book an example and to buy the necessary code signing capability but I do need a prompt solution. Can you (or anyone) suggest an approach? (And dont suggest WinDriver).
Thanks
Brian.

mm1 · February 1, 2011, 3:29am

Have you looked at KMDF?

mm

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Alex wrote: RE: “Writing Windows WDM DEvice Drivers” Book - Missing ‘CD ROM’

Sorry you spent money on it. Just discard that book and get Walter Oney’s
book
instead…

THanks Alex. I’m looking for something that gives me a REALLY simple and
up-to-date method to do nothing but I/O access to a parall port. I’m quite
prepared to pay for a good book an example and to buy the necessary code
signing capability but I do need a prompt solution. Can you (or anyone)
suggest an approach? (And dont suggest WinDriver).
Thanks
Brian.

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OSR_Community_User · February 1, 2011, 4:13am

@mm:
Tell me how

mm1 · February 1, 2011, 4:15am

http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Drivers-Windows-Foundation-Developer/dp/073
5623740

Recently back in stock, even.

mm

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Maxim_S_Shatskih · February 1, 2011, 5:16am

>suggest an approach? (And dont suggest WinDriver).

WinDriver is long ago obsoleted by KMDF. For 4 years or such.

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Maxim_S_Shatskih · February 1, 2011, 5:26am

>nothing but I/O access to a parall port.

Note that the parallel port already has its driver stack in Windows, so, probably it is better to call the MS’s drivers (by IOCTLs) instead of writing your own.

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OSR_Community_User · February 1, 2011, 7:18am

Thanks Maxim - could you tell me what their drivers are called so I can look them up? Will they exist in W64?

<<<probably it is better to call the MS’s drivers (by IOCTLs) instead of writing
your own.

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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
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mm1 · February 1, 2011, 7:21am

Look in the WDK docs, under ‘Device and Driver Technologies/Bus and Port
Drivers/Ports/Parallel.’

Good luck,

mm

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Thanks Maxim - could you tell me what their drivers are called so I can look
them up? Will they exist in W64?

<<<
probably it is better to call the MS’s drivers (by IOCTLs) instead of
writing
your own.

–
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
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OSR_Community_User · February 1, 2011, 7:23am

@MM: "Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation " ordered. Many thanks for the pointer.

OSR_Community_User · February 1, 2011, 7:27am

Many thanks. Have ordered it.
Brian

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http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Drivers-Windows-Foundation-Developer/dp/073
5623740

Recently back in stock, even.

mm

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mm1 · February 1, 2011, 7:32am

No problem. Glad to see that it’s back in print.

mm

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