The Windows driver developer community has two primary bodies of technical content published by Microsoft:  the WDK documentation set on MSDN and the Windows Hardware Developer Central (WHDC) Web site. The WDK writing team and the WHDC Web publishing team here at Microsoft have been working to better integrate these two bodies of content and provide an easier way to navigate the resources in both locations.

One way that we are trying to provide a better navigation and Web experience is to create a clear path from pages and articles on the WHDC Web site to the relevant topics in the WDK documentation set on MSDN. We have created such a path for Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) callout drivers.

Here are the resources in the path:

1.       Starting at the Networking page on the WHDC Web site, there is a “Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)” section with links to a revised Windows Filtering Platform overview article on WHDC and to the WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide section of the WDK documentation set on MSDN.

2.       The Windows Filtering Platform article on WHDC provides a 100-level technical overview of WFP, defines the benefits of using WFP and converting existing components to WFP, describes when user- and kernel-mode WFP components are needed, and lists links to the key resources for developing WFP-based components, including a link to the WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide.

3.       The WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide provides a set of links to topics to design WFP callout drivers, including a link to WFP driver developer roadmaps and a link back to the Windows Filtering Platform article. 

4.       The Roadmap for Developing WFP Callout Drivers topic in the WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide includes a link back to the Windows Filtering Platform article.

This path allows a driver developer to start from the fundamentals (the Networking page and Windows Filtering Platform article on WHDC) and click through to the implementation details for creating a WFP callout driver (the WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide and Roadmap for Developing WFP Callout Drivers topics on MSDN).

This path also allows a driver developer to get back to the fundamentals from the WDK documentation set through links to the Windows Filtering Platform article on the WFP Callout Drivers Design Guide and Roadmap for Developing WFP Callout Drivers topics on MSDN.

We would love to get your feedback on the usefulness of this new Web integration strategy. Please add your comments to this blog entry and let us know what you think.

Thanks for helping us improve the documentation for Windows driver developers.

Joe Davies [MSFT], WDK Writing Lead

http://blogs.msdn.com/wdkdocs

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