Books, tutorials on writing device drivers w. VB.NET

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Fred Zimmerman

Are there any top-notch books, and/or tutorials on writing
device drivers with VB.NET.

I have potential consulting job that involves writing wireless
device drivers using VB.NET. I am mid-level expertise with VB.NET

F.Z.
 
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Dick Grier

Hi,

Device drivers are not a target of managed code, be it VB or C#. The
standard approach is to use C/C++ and the DDK.

Do you really want to write a driver for some specific kind of custom
hardware (example, a printer of network card)? Or, do you want to work at
some higher level with hardware, such as data acquisition or other hardware?

Dick

Dick

--
Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 4th
Edition ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages) published July 2004.
 
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Fred Zimmerman

Dick,

That is the $64,000 question that you asked, as I have a first
face-to-face interview on this job Monday afternoon, and have few if any
details othat than the following.

It is a small 2 person (co-founders) Tier II Telecom software company
that is developing E-Switch device drivers (what they are calling device
drivers) in VB.NET. It did seem strange to me at first blush that C or
C++ was not being used, as I have only written low-level driver code in
C, C++, or Assembly language. My guess is that it is not strictly
device driver code that needs to be written, and more like TCP/IP, or
WinSock type interfacing code that serializes data, and maintains state
for the hardware device concerned.

As I get the full details Monday afternoon (10/11), I'll fill you in on
what I need to come up to speed on.

F.Z.
 

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