Tools, Classes and Events

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Tools

Debuggers

SoftICE by NuMega Technologies.
A must have for any driver developer. It takes a little while to get used to all the commands, but once you do, you won't know what you did without it.

Utilities

• Systems Internals
  This site has various different utilities and technical information for NT and Windows 95. They include various different monitor programs, and a performance counter library for NT drivers.
• INF-Tool Installation Script Designer
  A general INF file generator.

Driver Tool Kits

• Driver::Works by NuMega
• VToolsD by NuMega
• WinDK by BSQUARE
• DriverMagic by Object DynamicsLink not working
• VxDMagic by Object DynamicsLink not working
• WinDriver by Jungo
• KernelDriver by Jungo
• DriverX by Tetradyne Software Inc.
• Driver Framework Class Library by Tetradyne Software Inc.
• MCCI USB WDM Driver Kits for Windows 95 OSR2.1 by Moore Computer Consultants Incorporated.
• VxDWriter by TechSoft Pvt. Ltd is a shareware program that quickly creates a compilable VxD shell.
• Serial Driver Software Kits by WCSC

Driver Kits for Windows CE

• Driver kit for C&T 69000 Windows CE Video Driver Kit
• Driver kit for C&T 65550/54 Windows CE Video Driver Kit
• Device driver support for Windows CE
• Jungo's Driver Development kit for Windows CE

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Classes

OSR classes

Walter Oney classes

David Solomon Expert Seminars
David Solomon Expert Seminars no longer provides training for Windows NT/2000 drivers. They still have their seminar on Windows NT/2000 internal architecture.

Azius Developer Training
This company took over the driver training from David Solomon Expert Seminars.

Annabooks USB Design Workshop
A seminar covering hardware and software aspects of creating a USB device.

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Conferences

WinHEC
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference happens once a year. The next one is in Anaheim, California on March 25-27, 2001. I have found that this conference tends to be a forum for Microsoft to tell hardware companies what to do. It's worth it to go, just to see what direction the industry is going.

Meltdown
Next event, July 11-14, 2000, Seattle, WA
If your device works with Direct X, you should make sure to go to this conference. This is for game developers and hardware developers to get together and test their code. Frequently, this is when new features in Direct X are announced/explained.

WinDev
June, 2001, Boston, MA
I've never been to this conference, but if you can judge a conference by the people listed as presenters, this should be wonderful. According to the site "This Conference is five days of pure learning, a technical intellectual pursuit of the latest developments in the Windows industry. No hype. No fluff. You learn through intense technical sessions, live demos, and abundant sample code. " Unlike most conferences, this has a track devoted to device driver writing.

Game Developer Conference
March 20-24, 2001, San Jose CA
Good for game device developers to talk to game developers to see what direction they are planning on going. Nothing on driver classes though.

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