Windows 7 Device Driver

Introduction

Device drivers are where the rubber meets the road, and are very specialized pieces of software that allow your application programs to communicate to the outside world. Any communications your Windows 7 makes to the outside world requires a Device Driver. These devices include such things as mouse, display, keyboard, CD-ROMS, data acquisition, data network communication, and printers. However, Microsoft has written and supplied a great many drivers with the Windows 7 Operating System. These drivers support most of what we call the standard devices, and we will not be covering them in this book.

This book is about how we create device drivers for the nonstandard devices—devices that are not typically found on standard PCs. Quite ...