November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 8m
English
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Index
A
abstract data types
data types vs., 8–9
objects (components) based on, 10
ACLs (access control lists), in KMDF, 180
AcquireLock method, IWDFObject, 70
Active Template Library (ATL), UMDF, 85, 112
adaptive time-outs, I/O requests, 66–67
AddRef method, IUnknown
implementing, 125
rules for reference counting, 120
UMDF object model, 45
Administrators, privileges of, 180
algorithms, 8–9
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Wirth), 8
The Annotated C++ Reference Manual (Stroustrup), 8
applications, UMDF driver architecture, 44, 83
architecture
device driver objects, 7–12
UMDF, 82–84
WDF. See WDF (Windows Driver Foundation)
Windows I/O layered, 79–81
WMI, 253–254
Aristotle, on characteristics of objects and concepts, 7
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