Windows Device Drivers Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

This Windows 10 Device Drivers training course provides developers the knowledge of the basic fundamentals of writing a Windows 10 device driver using KMDF and UMDF.

By attending Windows 10 Device Drivers workshop, delegates will learn to:

Describe the Windows 10 architecture & software layers
Understand the role of WDF (Windows Driver Framework) for KMDF (kernel-mode) and UMDF (user-mode) drivers
Use the Windows 10 Driver Kit (WDK) for driver development
Integrate the WDK with Visual Studiofor driver development
Implement Plug and Play for a device driver
Understand and implement a Windows Universal Driver
Implement device driver instrumentation using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), and Windows Trace Preprocessor (WPP)
Describe the fundamentals of power management techniques for Windows 10 drivers
Implement a filter and layered driver
Debug a device driver using Visual Studio and WinDbg tools
Provide for installation of a device driver

C Programming Language competency
Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio
User-level experience with Windows 7, 8, or 10

Introduction to the Windows 10 Architecture

Design Goals
Windows layers
Kernel mode vs. user mode
The I/O subsystem
Kinds of Win10 Drivers

Windows Driver Architecture

The Driver Models: Legacy, WDM, WDF, KMDF, UMDF
Universal Drivers
The KMDF Model
KMDF Objects
Event Handling
The UMDF Model

Building Drivers with MSBuild

The Windows 10 Driver Kit
Integration with Visual Studio
MSBuild
Project Types

Plug and Play with Windows 10

Driver-centricity
The role of INF files
The role of the registry
Device ID string scoring
Resource discovery & allocation

WDF – KMDF Drivers

Describe the WDF Model
Dispatching
Event Handling
Creating a KMDF Driver

WDF – UMDF Drivers

Describe the need for User Mode Drivers
The UMDF Model
UMDF Objects
Event Handling
Creating a UMDF Driver

Universal Drivers

Describe the purpose of a Universal Driver
Limitations of a Universal Driver
Universal DDI functions

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Overview of WMI and event logging
The WMI Classes
Becoming a WMI Provider
Event Tracing for Windows
Adding ETW support

Windows 10 Power Management

Power management principles
Power requests
Power management policies
Implementing power management in a driver

Windows 10 Layered & Filter Drivers

What is a filter driver?
Typical uses of filter drivers
Using KMDF to write a filter driver

Analyzing Driver Quality

Code analysis tools
Static driver verifier
Source Code Annotation Language (SAL 2.0)
Analysis warnings
Performance Monitoring

Driver Signing

Why drivers are signed
Windows 10 signing rules
Test signing drivers with Visual Studio
Test certificates
Catalog files
Microsoft App Store (Co-Installer out)

Debugging Drivers

The Windows “Blue Screen of Death”
Debugging drivers with Visual Studio
Symbol files
Crash dumps
Interactive debugging with Visual Studio

Windows Hardware Quality Assurance

WHQL requirements for Windows 10
The WHQL test environment
Windows 10 Logos
Windows File Protection
Driver certification
Digital signatures

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Windows 10 Device Drivers

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