Software Diagnostics Library

Why do we need yet another book about device drivers? There are couple of reasons here:

1. Old books are more about developing the narrow range of legacy drivers than troubleshooting and debugging them.

2. New books shift towards WDF and ignore legacy drivers.

3. Windows Internals book is too big and something lightweight is desperately needed.

4. No published driver books use UML as communication device and discuss driver developement as software factory.

5. Existing books mostly view device drivers as hardware device drivers.

I started collecting and organizing information about Windows drivers 2 years ago and published a few selected materials so you can get an approximate flavour of what is expected in the forthcoming book scheduled for the next year:

UML and Device Drivers

• Title:  Windows Device Drivers: An Introduction
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Paperback: 128 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-4-0
• Publisher: Opentask (15 Apr 2009)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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