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Summary: Note: The Book does not cover many types of drivers!
Review: I just received the book and I immediately turned to the index to search for NETWORK DRIVERS. Nope. Well, the introduction chapter will tell you "what we don't cover" (this important omission should of been mentioned in the online book excerpts):The book does not cover: File Drivers, Network Drivers, Graphic Drivers and User Mode Drivers. One would think that in this day of age of Communications, High End Speed Games, etc, that a rather large book titled "Developing Windows NT Device Drivers" would cover these important device drivers. At a minimum, its should of covered NDIS Device Drivers. It does not.
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Summary: This book is "The Bible" for NT device drivers
Review: I love this book. Whatever grey areas were created by other books is cleared after reading this book. The verbosity kept me interested.
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Summary: My Savior
Review: I'm a high school intern and I knew nothing about drivers (other than installing them) 3 months ago. Now I have completed 2, an ISA and Parallel port driver. This book is really great for people new to the DDK and need a good foundation. The examples are clear, and the pace of the book is pretty slow (but steady). Once you get past the first 9-10 chapters you can pretty much skim for parts you need. The tips are especially helpful, as to why C++ OOP isn't suitable, to why 2 computers are absolutely necessary. Even if you plan on making WDM drivers, this book will be helpful. Oney's WDM book is really useless for beginners, and the DDK almost has no redeeming value, other than being very very heavy (oh, wait thats not good either). The net is surprisingly lacking of driver programming pages. Get this book.
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Summary: My Savior
Review: I'm a high school intern and I knew nothing about drivers (other than installing them) 3 months ago. Now I have completed 2, an ISA and Parallel port driver. This book is really great for people new to the DDK and need a good foundation. The examples are clear, and the pace of the book is pretty slow (but steady). Once you get past the first 9-10 chapters you can pretty much skim for parts you need. The tips are especially helpful, as to why C++ OOP isn't suitable, to why 2 computers are absolutely necessary. Even if you plan on making WDM drivers, this book will be helpful. Oney's WDM book is really useless for beginners, and the DDK almost has no redeeming value, other than being very very heavy (oh, wait thats not good either). The net is surprisingly lacking of driver programming pages. Get this book.
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Summary: One of the bests
Review: It's totally great to hear the inside scoop from the experts. I love the real experience grey comments. A very tough subject covered in great depth but still very readable. A device driver classic! Forget the other driver books and buy this one!
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Summary: The BEST book on building windows drivers
Review: It's totally great to hear the inside scoop from the experts. I love the real experience grey comments. A very tough subject covered in great depth but still very readable. A device driver classic! Forget the other driver books and buy this one!
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Summary: Developing Windows NT Device Drivers
Review: No good for windows 2000 or XP, otherwise very good and informative. Code available from authors sites, but buggy (on XP anyway). Shame it's out of date, if a legacy driver will do you then this book is very good.
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Summary: Poor Style and No Code Download/Disk - Still Somewhat Useful
Review: This book is a useful reference for the NT/Win2k driver developer, but it has a number of disappointing flaws which make it less practical. The authors attempt to be humorous by making frequent sarcastic remarks and the general tone is very informal--inappropriate for a developer's handbook. The book also appears to be poorly proofread, as some sentences don't parse and there are typographical errors in printed code. All these stylistic errors make the book much more difficult to use, as it takes more time and effort to locate and absorb the important content. The book does not include a disk or CD with source code printed in the text, and the authors' web site includes code for only a small minority of the programs mentioned in the book. If you want to try out the examples, you'll be spending a lot of time typing. On the whole, this book is useful, but I recommended it only until a better-written text is available.
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Summary: The very BEST of the BEST
Review: This is the BEST book on windows NT driver. I own 6 or 7 books on Windows NT driver, but this is the only one that I carry around with me at all time. This book really helped me with my project at work, especially, the chapter on PCI and memory mapping. I am in love with this book. Can't leave home without it.
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