Have You Followed a Roadmap Lately?
For the past year we have been posting “developer roadmaps” for many driver technologies. Like any map, they are intended to help you get from a starting point to a destination. We’ve tried to focus roadmaps on helping you, if you are new to a technology, to learn about the available driver models, architectural considerations, and nuts-and-bolts of installation and testing to finally complete a working driver that can be provided to customers.
So, we’re wondering how these roadmaps have been working. We’re looking for ways to improve procedures, links, and information in the roadmaps so that you can most efficiently complete typical development tasks.
Can you take a few minutes to help us improve the roadmaps? Just add a comment to this blog post, or send us an email at ddksurv1@microsoft.com. This is what we're looking for:
1. Name any roadmap(s) that you have used—see the list below.
2. Rate the usefulness of the roadmap, from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent).
3. What was your level of driver development knowledge before you read the roadmap--beginning, intermediate, or expert?
4. Explain how the roadmap helped you (or not) to complete a driver development project or to learn about a technology.
5. Provide any real-world examples of what caused you difficulty, or what worked well.
6. Add any other thoughts about the roadmap, or about topics that it links to, or suggest other types of roadmaps that you’d like to see.
If you can suggest better ways to get developers up to speed and pointed in the right direction, we’d love to hear your opinions!
Here are the WDK roadmap topics currently available on MSDN:
Roadmap for Developing WDM Audio Drivers
Roadmap for Developing Biometric Drivers
Roadmap for Developing Drivers for the Windows Vista Display Driver Model
Roadmap for Developing Drivers for the Windows 2000 Display Driver Model
Roadmap for Developing Native 802.11 Wireless LAN Drivers
Roadmap to Develop MB Miniport drivers
Roadmap for Developing WFP Callout Drivers
Roadmap for Developing Network Drivers with Winsock Kernel
Roadmap for Developing Streaming Minidrivers
－ Mark Lawler [MSFT], WDK Programming Writer
