Information Sites and other Net Resources
These sites offer free information related to NT drivers.
Many also offer products and/or services.
Subheadings on this page:
Microsoft
FAQs and other developers' resources
Newsgroups
Mailing Lists
Hardware information
Other NT links (not driver-specific)
Microsoft
Yes, you already know about these links. I'm trying to be complete.
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Microsoft DDK
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The Microsoft DDK web site. Download the current DDK, among other things.
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Driver Verify info
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Windows 2000 includes some new features to support driver verification.
A must read!
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Microsoft HWDEV
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This is where Microsoft used to send all driver writers before they
had the DDK page.
Now it is more focused toward resources for hardware developers.
Still, there's a lot here that's of interest to driver writers.
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Windows NT Kernel Mode Driver FAQ
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Yes, this is a
"sideways" link to my own FAQ page, mostly for the benefit of
anyone else who links directly here instead of to my home page.
(As Don Lancaster says, as a writer you should reference yourself every chance you get.)
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www.sysinternals.com
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Mark Russinovich's
justly-famous "System Internals" web site,
with numerous articles, free utilities
(source code, including many very interesting pseudodrivers, included!).
Also the home of dbgmon, the utility that catches kernel debugger output
and displays it in a window on the local machine.
No serious NT developer can ignore this site!
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AskTheOracle
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Driver resources, mostly links, but a very comprehensive set of links.
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"NT Insider" by Open Systems Resources
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OSR's web site includes back issues of their "NT Insider" newsletter.
Some articles include downloadable source code.
Also sign up for the newsletter here.
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Vireo (now NuMega) Free Utilities
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Download SrcToDsp, LastLine, and more.
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Windows Driver Web Page
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Cherry Hill Software's Windows driver resources page.
Not NT-specific. Lots of links to related companies.
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Intec DDK Group
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A driver resources site - short FAQ, links, DDK bug list.
Hasn't been updated for a while (of course, I'm a fine one to talk).
A real problem, though, is that there are numerous errors and omissions in their FAQ.
Reader beware.
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Newsgroups
I know that Usenet newsgroups have a reputation for rudeness,
if not outright hostility,
but these are notable exceptions.
Extremely good signal-to-noise ratio,
very little "spam", and a very knowledgeable pool of "answerers"
make these very valuable resources.
Don't forget
deja news when you're looking for past articles.
Mailing Lists
For public Q&A, I personally prefer newsgroups (see above) to mailing lists.
However, these lists are very popular;
many people don't want to set up yet another "Internet UI" (a newsreader),
and some poor souls are on ISPs that don't carry news at all,
or don't carry the driver-related groups,
or carry them so unreliably that they might as well not.
All of the comments I made about the quality of discussion on the newsgroups
apply to these mailing lists as well, only more so.
In addition, propagation of the mailing lists is almost always faster and
more reliable than news.
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DDK-L mailing list
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This is not NT-specific, but includes NT driver development along with Windows 3.1
and Windows 9x drivers.
There is a $15 fee after a one-month trial period.
Put "subscribe" in the message body.
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NTDEV mailing list
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This is NT-specific, but not driver specific. Put
"subscribe ntdev" in the message body.
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NTFSD mailing list
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Primarily addresses NT File System Driver development.
Put "subscribe ntfsd" in the message body.
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Jan Axelson's Lakeview Research
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The source for information and tools relating to parallel ports, RS-232 and RS-485 serial communications, 8052-Basic microcontrollers, and making printed-circuit boards.
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PLX Technology
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PLX is one of the premier makers of PCI interface chips.
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