Developing Drivers Windows Driver Foundation Pdf Printer

Developing Drivers Windows Driver Foundation Pdf Printer

If you want to read a book, 'Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation' is the one you are looking for. Share improve this answer answered Jan 18 '10 at 10:38. The Developing Drivers with Windows Driver Foundation book is also available to help you learn the concepts and fundamentals of Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF). This book introduces Windows drivers and basic kernel-mode programming, and then describes the.

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The v4 printer driver model was designed to address known issues with the version 3 driver model, and thus improve the quality of the experience that users have with their printers.

Note To help to better explain some of the concepts in this section, a fictional company called Fabrikam is used.

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Introduction

The v4 printer driver model is a refinement of the existing v3 printer driver model, and it was designed to improve driver development, reduce IT management costs, and support new scenarios. The v4 print driver model continues to support many familiar technologies like XPSDrv, GPD, PPD, Autoconfiguration, and Bidi. The v4 print driver model also supports several new extensibility points.

The v4 print driver model is also optimized for several new scenarios including the following:

  • Windows 8 scenarios

    UWP apps present new design considerations regarding UI behavior and security context. So a printer driver model was needed that would provide deeply integrated support for this new environment. The v4 print driver model provides the only way for printer manufacturers to provide customized Print Preferences experiences or Printer Notification experiences in UWP apps.

  • Printer sharing

    Printer sharing is a key value proposition item for Windows servers. The v4 printer driver model was designed to make sharing easier and more efficient by eliminating the need to manage drivers across processor architectures.

  • Ease of driver development

    The v4 driver has to support existing development efforts from the version 3 printer driver model and from the XPSDrv architecture. And also, the v4 driver must be easier to develop and test.

High-level Architecture

The following is a high-level representation of a v4 print driver. With the exception of the rendering filters and user interface applications, all the other functional blocks in the diagram are implemented by Microsoft. V4 print drivers rely heavily on data files and JavaScript for extensibility. The blue boxes represent existing files that were used in the v3 driver model, and the green boxes represent new places to plug in.

This section discusses the following aspects of the v4 printer driver:

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Does anyone have any books/tutorials which may be useful in getting started in Windows device driver development?

For plain Win32/GUI development, Petzold's book seems to be the essential reference. Does such exist for drivers?

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I would like to note that I'm not actually talking to hardware -- I actually want to emulate a piece of hardware in software, but I'd like to see how things work in general first.

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One thing to beware of is the device driver development (architecture and tools) changes more than Win32 development .. so while Petzold's book from the 1990s is fine for Win32 and may be considered a timeless classic, the architecture for many kinds of drivers (printer drivers, network drivers, etc.) has varied in various O/S releases.

Here's a blog entry which reviews various books: Windows Device Drivers Book Reviews.

Don't forget the microsoft documentation included with the DDK: and, most importantly, the sample drivers (source code) included with the DDK. When I wanted to write a mock serial port driver, for example, I found the sample serial driver documentation combined with the DDK documentation was invaluable (and sufficient).

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To learn kernel development well:

a. lots of samples kernel programs:

Windows DDK sample:

WDK samples:

Or just search:

(because above URL may change, but Google will likely to return u the most appropriate/reachable one)

b. lots of debugging techniques, and among which I found the best is VMware (or VirtualBox) + windbg + serial port debugging:

and this paper is classic for using VMWare + windbg (Lord of the Ring0):

c. as well as system admin tools which others have built:

(In the past called SysInternals built by Mark Russinovich, co-author of 'Windows Internal' - MUST READ!!)

from these tools u have will immense debugging options.

d. Join the OSR mailing list (ntdev especially is very active, but there are others like windbg):

e. Watch lots of video related to windows + kernel at channel9 (google returned over 1000 links):

f. Discussion forum like:

Subscribed to the free OSR magazine too (hardcopy). I have received mine since 1998 till now - and it is delivered half-way round the earth!

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I would search for tutorials with rich examples, like this one. The essence in windows driver development is to get the picture about layers and IRPs, IRQLs, and also to know terms like filter drivers. If you are looking for example codes, here is my Spodek driver code: sf.net link. You will find there a filter driver (for keyboard, keyb.c), kernel space queue (queue.c) and techniques to hide presence in system. It's a legacy (sys) driver though.

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You should probably use the quite recent Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) framework instead of the older WDM framework. A good starting point is reading the WDF Overview Word documents.

If you want to read a book, 'Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation' is the one you are looking for.

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Personally the best way to start developing is by real-world exposure. Having this in mind I'd recomment this book

It should be enough to get you started to have some code running which does 'something' then after you have the general picture you might dwell on topics such as - Difference between Buffered/Neither/Direct methods and the peculiarities associated with them.

'Programming the windows driver model, 2nd edition' is also a great help when you need details regarding some specific topics. But first I believe the most important thing is to put things into context and then build on that.

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