How do you write device drivers?

[wossname]

Lets say I have a non-standard USB device and I need to write a driver for it. (I'm quite prepared to find out that it is beyond my skills, but hey!).

What is involved? What programming tools would I need? Is it possible to write a device driver in .Net?

Does anyone have experience in this field?

[dglienna]

You should post in the 'Net forum. It's not easy, but I know that it can be done.

[made_of_asp]

Device drivers are usually written in C.

Kernel-mode drivers must be composed of very well-written stable code.

.NET framework is not intended for developing drivers to my knowledge.

MSDN has a whole section dedicated to writing drivers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...riverHowTo.asp

[wossname]

Looks complicated. I'll leave it I think

Cheers.

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