Overview

This chapter writes a simple WDM device driver, called Wdm1. It shows how Wdm1 is built and installed in Windows 98 and Windows 2000. The basics of the driver are explained, but a full explanation of the guts has to wait until the following chapters.

The Wdm1 driver is for a virtual WDM device that does not correspond to any real hardware. For now, the Plug and Play and Power Management support is minimal. The Wdm1 driver implements a shared memory buffer for all Wdm1 devices.

First, I describe how to set up your computer for WDM driver development by installing the various development kits and by setting up Visual Studio. I describe the other useful tools that you will need.

The book software provides a Visual Studio workspace called WDM Book that you can use to compile the drivers and any associated user mode Win32 applications. Be careful if editing within this workspace as the different projects in this workspace often have files of the same name.

System Set Up

The section details what you will have to do to set up your development computer or computers for WDM driver development. This task is laborious, especially as you have to do it at least twice, once for Windows 2000 and once for Windows 98.

You will have to be an Administrative user to install the W2000 Driver Development Kit (DDK) and drivers in Windows 2000.

These instructions assume that you are using...