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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Look elsewhere if you want to learn how to write a driver 8 Jan. 2011
By motocoder - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
I purchased this book because I needed to come up to speed quickly on Windows device drivers, and this book was the only one available at my local bookstore. There were no reviews on the book at the time, but I took a chance and bought it anyway.
Unfortunately, this book is not a good choice. The book starts out with a somewhat useless chapter on objects, and just gets worse from there. The book has a bad habit of referring in early chapters to concepts that are not fully explained until later chapters or at all. In addition, it is very repetitive. For example, the fact that KMDF minimizes the amount of driver code that you need to write by providing a reasonable default implementation for many events must be mentioned over 100 times in this book. It is almost like someone copied and pasted the same text as a means of inflating the size of the book.
As the previous reviewer mentioned, there are technical inaccuracies in the book, and the section on one kernel mode drivers does not stand alone - you need to read the section on user mode device drivers.
All in all, this is one of the worst technical books I have ever purchased. I ended up looking elsewhere to learn how to write a driver.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The book misses on objectives, organization and technical accuracy 7 Jan. 2011
By Don Burn - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
This is a book that claims provides the technical guidance and understanding needed to write device drivers unfortunately it doesn t get there. The book expects the user to know a large number of concepts from Windows including device driver concepts with no explanation of what they are. At the same time the book is written at a high level, so is designed to be an introductory book without the needed technical introduction.
The book is organized into three sections, with the last two being the two driver models being described, unfortunately there are concepts presents in the first model UMDF that are referred to in the second KMDF even though most people will only want to use one model or the other.
Finally, there are a large number of small technical inaccuracies, not as many as one previous windows drvier book I have read, but enough to cause a lot of unneeded pain in developing a driver.
There is a need for a good book that walks you through the Windows Driver Framework in a way a new developer can easily follow, unfortunately this book is not it.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Waste of money 22 Jun. 2011
By Stephen Cleary - Published on Amazon.com
This book was recently reviewed in detail by four leading experts in Windows device driver development Google ntinsider_2011_02.
I got a pretty good laugh at some of those reviews. I agree with every single one of them; this book is a waste of money
Don Burn: New developers could use a good introductory book on WDF to get them going. This book is not it. For experienced developers, this book is a total waste of time, since it covers things at a very high level with no new information.
Scott Noone: In case it hasn t been clear from this review, do not buy this book. There just isn t anything here that you haven t seen before and what is here is full of inaccuracies.
Martin O Brien: There are three things that strike me most about this book, other than its crappiness. The first is that is essentially a rehash of existing material. The second is its almost complete lack of detail. The third is that its rehash nature notwithstanding, it is full of errors of all types. This one made me laugh - I don t often see crappiness in a book review.
Peter Viscarola: This book sucks. It s useless.
What s sad is that most of the reviewers mentioned that there is a definite need for a good book on Windows driver development, which has been the case for years. I have two of the classics which I recommend :
Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model
Those two combined with some Windows system-level books Windows Internals and Advanced Windows Debugging taken together are a pretty good team, but there is still a need for additional books in the field of driver writing, particularly at the beginner level. This book is not one of the contenders, sorry.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Terrifyingly bad 21 Mar. 2011
By Ghost Ghost M - Published on Amazon.com
Pros: none that I can see. Well, it s recent -- but see the cons.
Cons:
1. Exceptionally poorly written: basically, the author has no command of the English language as a means of written communications. I don t want to waste my time posting examples, but they abound on every page. This book is a verbal equivalent of a guide who promised to lead you somewhere you want to go who every couple of steps kicks you in the shins all of a sudden disjointedness, shaky diction, illogicality rule. Btw, this has been published by a major publisher: where s editing.
2. I question the sanity of the decision to include the kernel drivers and the user-mode drivers in the same book. It is a sign of the utmost lack of clue: the only commonality between the two is the word driver the proverbial resemblance between the lightning bug and the lightning. These two things are completely different; people who write kernel drivers do not tend to be the same people who write UM drivers; in fact, despite the fact that I ve been dealing with Windows for a long time, I ve never had to write a UM driver -- and do not know a single person who has. Whenever you hear the word driver you can bet it s a _kernel_ driver -- and the subject is huge and obscure, and could take many books worth of printed space to explain adequately. The last decent Windows driver book the one by Dekker and Newcomer; published by the same publisher, btw. was well over a thousand pages long -- and even that did not cover everything: far from it. This book here is much smaller than that, and yet the author thought it fitting to waste a half of the given space on user-mode drivers. This topic is not for the same reading audience. Just this decision alone prevents this book from being anything close to useful.
3. The title is misleading: it s not about Windows 7 Drivers, it s about using the latest MS driver _library_ who is supposed to shield you from the horrors of the bare-bones DDK. It s kinda like writing Windows programs to the MFC interface rather than directly to the Windows API purportedly for the same reason. Nothing wrong with this in general, but the title should reflect this nuance so as not to mislead prospective readers, at the very least because I doubt one can use this interface w/o having a good grasp of the DDK just like you couldn t really be effective with MFC w/o being very comfortable with the API first of course MFC is so bad, even that wouldn t really help -- and it is, I believe, exactly the same on the kernel driver level, but let s not get into this here.
Bottom line: not worth the time or money, imo. At the same time, it s true that at the moment there s nothing else that s written more or less for the current version of Windows all decent books on this topic were still about NT or 2000, afaik; so that s quite a bit behind the times : I m sure some people will still be itchy to get this book: so, if tempted, check it out in store, do not buy sight unseen lest you be disappointed. Do not put much faith in the five-star reviews here: I bet they ve been posted by author/publisher sock puppets with empty reviews records in their profiles, as a means of damage control upon the appearance of honest reviews. The book is exceptionally lousy, one of the worst technical books I ve seen in my life. What a shame. Why is Microsoft Press not publishing something decent. Not that they did in the past, in this area at least, so perhaps it s normal. For now, we ve been left with the old books and what you get on MSDN; if there are any updated driver books, I m unaware of them: if you are, please post something to that effect.
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Added on 03/26/20011: thanks to the commenter Don Burn who reminds us about the book Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation by Penny Orwick -- actually I have this book, but I forgot about it. It is, undoubtedly, a vastly better book than this one, although it is not particularly new: it s from the heydays of XP, about four-five years ago. And it, too, is not about the DDK but about the older version of the Windows driver library which, as I said, I don t believe one can use effectively w/o having a good grasp of the pure DDK programming. What we need imo is a very well-written and all-encompassing tutorial/reference for the DDK itself. The DDK is the real basis, and as far as Microsoft s superstructures -- much touted as advanced and helpful, but usually adipose and poorly designed -- well, I ve dealt with them all: DDE, MFC, ATL, you name it, and I m rather sceptical about them understatement. To be effective you need to be comfortable and proficient at the API level; and so what I want is something like an updated Dekker/Newcomer, detailed and well written. Once more, thanks to Don Burn for his information.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Very disappointing 8 Feb. 2011
By Daniel J Kelly - Published on Amazon.com
Poorly written. Poorly edited. At one point text from one page is repeated on the next. Examples are poorly documented.
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By motocoder on January 8, 2011
Format: Paperback
I purchased this book because I needed to come up to speed quickly on Windows device drivers, and this book was the only one available at my local bookstore. There were no reviews on the book at the time, but I took a chance and bought it anyway.
Unfortunately, this book is not a good choice. The book starts out with a somewhat useless chapter on objects, and just gets worse from there. The book has a bad habit of referring in early chapters to concepts that are not fully explained until later chapters or at all. In addition, it is very repetitive. For example, the fact that KMDF minimizes the amount of driver code that you need to write by providing a reasonable default implementation for many events must be mentioned over 100 times in this book. It is almost like someone copied and pasted the same text as a means of inflating the size of the book.
As the previous reviewer mentioned, there are technical inaccuracies in the book, and the section on one kernel mode drivers does not stand alone - you need to read the section on user mode device drivers.
All in all, this is one of the worst technical books I have ever purchased. I ended up looking elsewhere to learn how to write a driver.
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