Best Practices for Developing a Device Driver (Windows CE 5.0)
Best practices for developing Microsoft® Windows® CE drivers are recommendations for enhancing your device drivers. Whether a particular best practice applies to your device driver depends on the device driver, the functionality of the device, and how you intend to expose that functionality. Many Windows CE device drivers adhere to these best practices.
In This Section
- Best Practices for Secure and Reliable Device Drivers
Offers best practices for enhancing the security and reliability of your device driver. - Best Practices for Power Manageable Device Drivers
Offers best practices for enhancing the power manageability of your device driver. - Best Practices for Portable Device Drivers
Offers best practices for enhancing the portability of your device driver. - Best Practices for Maintainable Device Drivers
Offers best practices for enhancing the maintainability of your device driver. - Best Practices for Optimizing Device Drivers
Offers best practices for optimizing device drivers for size and speed. - Production-Quality Drivers
Lists Windows CE production-quality device drivers; these drivers adhere to best practices for developing a Windows CE device driver.
Related Sections
- Power Management
Describes the power management capabilities that the Windows CE operating system provides. - Production-Quality OAL
Describes the production-quality OEM adaptation layers (OALs) that the Windows CE operating system provides. - Windows CE Drivers
Offers information about all the device drivers that the Windows CE operating system implements.
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