My List of Top 5 Windows Books

re: My List of Top 5 Windows Books

JamesNT — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:35:26 GMT

I've been a Russinovich fan for quite some time so I definitly second your choice for his book.

As for the others, I'm going to give them a shot. Maybe we'll have the opportunity to compare notes.

JamesNT

re: My List of Top 5 Windows Books

blarggstar — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:37:39 GMT

Thanks for the list. I am definitely checking all five of these out!

re: My List of Top 5 Windows Books

Alex — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:39:01 GMT

Hi,

I have a question about "Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation"; does it provide any knowledge that is useful to someone who uses the previous driver model?

And another question - assuming that I have a clean sheet in front of me, and I have to develop a kernel mode driver, will anyone not out of their mind NOT choose WDF? i.e. why should they choose WDF?

I am a newbie in this area, and my fear is that while attempting to get my hands on the WDF I will make a mess in my head. Is this a real risk?

re: My List of Top 5 Windows Books

Alex — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:41:33 GMT

Uhm... I made a mistake; in that comment, assume that the clean sheet is not in front of me, but in front of "anyone not out of their mind" :-)

re: My List of Top 5 Windows Books

iliast — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:03:33 GMT

Alex,

if you're a newbie then definately WDF is the best way to start and the WDF book that you mention is a must have.

WDF is much simpler than WDM and many people, who have been writing WDM code, are now switching to WDF. The WDF book doesn't go into the WDM internals, however you don't need them, in order to start developing WDF drivers.