Crafting Windows NT Device Drivers: The Developer's Guide

Lets face it, Microsoft could not sell a dieing man a glass of water. Reading the wdk docs is the most jumbled pile of words aimed at nice short web pages than getting ideas across. This book was written in the NT 4 era and looks on Win2k as the future, but Windows driver writing is complex enough and has not changed in its base ideas so that with this book, along with the wdk you can write a driver! Others have noted that the book skips over exciting things like writing a file system, but nobody is going to ask you to write a file system but a nice filter driver is still a possibility. It gives the basic view of drivers and the relationship of the objects needed to build one. You will have to read the book, then use the knowledge to unravel the wdk to get the changes and extra commands since added to drivers for valid up to date work, but the data presented is well written and builds you knowledge in layers. Couple this book with "Advanced Windows Debugging" and you could build a career, if the clowns had not shipped the jobs overseas. The trick with drivers is learning the layout without falling asleep, this book does a much better job than most, but as usual, you will probably need all the books you can get to actually write a comercial quality driver, even on a simple level and driver writing still pays fantastic, so get on with it!

I'm a high school intern and I knew nothing about drivers (other than installing them) 3 months ago. Now I have completed 2, an ISA and Parallel port driver. This book is really great for people new to the DDK and need a good foundation. The examples are clear, and the pace of the book is pretty slow (but steady). Once you get past the first 9-10 chapters you can pretty much skim for parts you need. The tips are especially helpful, as to why C++ OOP isn't suitable, to why 2 computers are absolutely necessary. Even if you plan on making WDM drivers, this book will be helpful. Oney's WDM book is really useless for beginners, and the DDK almost has no redeeming value, other than being very very heavy (oh, wait thats not good either). The net is surprisingly lacking of driver programming pages. Get this book.

This is the BEST book on windows NT driver. I own 6 or 7 books on Windows NT driver, but this is the only one that I carry around with me at all time. This book really helped me with my project at work, especially, the chapter on PCI and memory mapping. I am in love with this book. Can't leave home without it.

It's totally great to hear the inside scoop from the experts. I love the real experience grey comments. A very tough subject covered in great depth but still very readable. A device driver classic! Forget the other driver books and buy this one!

I love this book. Whatever grey areas were created by other books is cleared after reading this book. The verbosity kept me interested.