Kernel-Mode Driver Architecture Design Guide

Note

For information about programming interfaces that your driver can implement or call, see the Kernel-Mode Driver Reference.

This section includes general concepts to help you understand kernel-mode programming and describes specific techniques of kernel programming. For a general overview of Windows Drivers, see Getting Started with Windows Drivers, which provides a general overview of Windows components, lists the types of device drivers used in Windows, discusses the goals of Windows device drivers, and discusses generic sample device drivers included in the kit.

This section contains conceptual information that describes and helps you build kernel-mode drivers.