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My latest article in NTInsider
A bit late perhaps, but my latest article on API development got published in the NTInsider (owned by OSR Online ). The online version can be found here . It requires free registration. I know that at least 2 people have read it completely, because that...
It’s a small world after all
Yesterday I was searching for some information on FireWire and the User Mode Driver Foundation (UMDF) and I ended up on the blog of Ilias Tsigkogiannis . I scanned the page and lo and behold: He links to my articles on driver development using the KMDF...
My first article on API development in the NT Insider
It is with some pride that I can announce my first publication that is printed on processed dead trees, a.k.a. paper. It is titled ‘ Designing a Device API: Part 1 - What It Means, and Why You Should Do It ’ and it is published in the ‘NT Insider’; a...
Source code for the user mode part of my USB tutorial driver
Sometime ago I wrote 2 length articles on writing device drivers, using the new Kernel Mode Driver Framework that is the bees-knees when it comes to kernel mode programming. Of course, I had to have a demo application to interact with the device drivers...
Is it possible to create (USB) device drivers with Visual C++?
This question pops up in the Visual C++ newsgroups from time to time. You can’t. At least, you cannot directly perform USB communications. USB simply doesn’t work that way. They same is true for PCI, Firewire, SCSI, ... All USB IO has to be...