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- Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers
- by David Thielen & Bryan Woodruff
- Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
- ISBN: 0-201-62706-X
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- Very simply - if you write Windows programs you will probably need this book.
- If Windows has ever limited one of your programs capabilities, you definitely
- need this book.
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- Includes complete source code to Win-Link!
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- From the back cover of the book:
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- Virtual device drivers (also know as VxDs) allow Windows developers to access
- undreamed-of power in their programs. If you want to write programs that
- have direct access to hardware devices, can interface to vital CPU functions,
- or can take over parts of the operating system, the welcome to the world of
- VxDs.
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- Written by experts in the field, David Thielen and Bryan Woodruff, Writing
- Windows Virtual Device Drivers introduces the concepts of virtual device
- drivers and shows how to write VxDs in both C and assembly language. Fully
- commented complete working source code examples demonstrate how to write a
- VxD to talk to any hardware device and show the wealth of tricks you can
- perform with VxDs, including interprocess communication.
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- An extensive appendix provides an encyclopedic reference for the the Virtual
- Machine Manager, the preemptive multitasking kernel at the heart of Windows,
- and system VxD services and macros. The accompanying disk includes VxD-lite,
- Microsoft's toolkit for building generic virtual device drivers.
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