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What should I look at to build a windows driver?

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I was consulting the windows/microsoft documentation, but I almost didn't understood anything apart some introduction panels, too tecnical, not even sure if I was looking at the correct thing

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Which documentation did you look at exactly? These seem like they might be the right place to start:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/gettingstarted/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/develop/

 

36 minutes ago, 12345678 said:

…too tecnical, not even sure if I was looking at the correct thing

You do understand that developing drivers is a fairly low level technical task, right? Even more so than application development. As the getting started page says, you should be familiar with C and/or C++ and COM. And obviously the hardware you're trying to write a driver for.

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To control most devices you do not need a driver. Using windows generic is usually enough. You need however to build an interpreter for the signals sent and received through the device. Therefore a COM library is enough which is a lot easier than making a driver.

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