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The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers (2nd Edition)
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Author: Art Baker, Jerry Lozano
List Price: $59.99
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ISBN: 0130204315
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (20 November, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 43,953
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
No printer driver info.
There is absolutely no information about printer drivers in this book. The explanation about the printing process is so skimpy that you can't tell that it is wrong.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Must have
If you are writing Windows Device Drivers, this is one of 3 books you absolutely must have. Buy it. And read this one first.
Rating: 5 out of 5
OK, I'll chime in
It's a great BEGINNER'S book on NT device drivers. There's no better book to START FROM. It's a noticeable improvement over the previous edition, it's cleaner, corrected, it's updated for Win2K, it's better made, easier on eyes, pictures are better too. There's practically nothing negative I can say about this book.Some reviewers complained that it doesn't cover this or that (network drivers, for example.) Well, it's an INTRODUCTORY book. It sticks to the core NT driver area (and as such, it'll be sufficient for 90% of what most people have to deal with.) Here I'd like to stress that I don't mean it's too shallow, it's fine, rather, it's not all-encompassing. But an all-ancompassing book would probably take 10,000 pages while you want to start small so as not to be swamped. Check the DDK out -- and it's not all-encompassing either -- it's a 5-piece book set! (And I wouldn't call it very readable :-) So, yes, the book is somewhat limited in scope, but within its scope, it's plenty profound. Therefore, my very strict evaluation goes thusly: it's a good book, the best one to start from, and it's one that is good to have in general, whether just starting or not. Kudos to the author, with this edition - especially to Jerry, who, after reading both editions I feel, did the bulk of updating.
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