Device Driver How-to Topics

The following topics explain how to create, implement, and optimize device drivers for a Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET–based platform.

In This Section

• How to Add Power Management to a Device Driver
  Provides an overview of how to add power management to device drivers.
• How to Create a Device Driver
  Describes from the beginning the steps necessary to create a Windows CE–based device driver.
• How to Configure a Platform to Support a Flash Media Device
  Includes steps about how to develop a flash media driver and configure the Platform.reg file for your platform to support a flash media device.
• How to Debug a Device Driver
  Describes the process for using Platform Builder debugging tools to debug a Windows CE–based device driver.
• How to Decide Whether to Use GPE in a Display Driver
  Describes the benefits and limitations of using the Graphics Primitive Engine (GPE) classes in a display driver.
• How to Develop a Flash Media Driver
  Includes steps about how to create and customize and debug a flash media driver.
• How to Develop a Connectionless NDIS Miniport Driver
  Describes how to develop an NDIS miniport driver using the NDIS wrapper and the NDIS miniport driver samples provided with Platform Builder.
• How to Migrate a Keyboard Driver to Conform to the Layout Manager Interface
  Describes how to migrate a keyboard driver from a Windows CE .NET 4.1 or earlier platform to the Windows CE .NET 4.2–based platform so that the driver conforms to the Layout Manager interface.
• How to Migrate a Keyboard Driver Without Conforming to the Layout Manager Interface
  Describes how to migrate a keyboard driver from a Windows CE .NET 4.1 or earlier platform to the Windows CE .NET 4.2–based platform without conforming to the Layout Manager interface.
• How to Migrate a Windows-based Desktop NDIS Miniport Driver to Windows CE
  Includes explanations about Windows CE NDIS support and the NDIS wrapper.
• How to Profile and Optimize a Display Driver
  Provides an example of using general Monte Carlo profiling techniques as well as the dedicated driver-profiling tool DispPerf.exe to gather and analyze data on the performance of the FLAT display driver. It then shows how to implement a specific change in the driver code to improve performance for a particular scenario.
• How to Use the CETK to Test a Driver
  Describes how to use the Windows CE .NET Test Kit (CETK) to test a Windows CE–based device driver.

Related Sections

• How-to Topics
  Offers links to topics that walk you through step-by-step procedures for accomplishing major embedded development tasks.
• Finding Information in Help
  Explains the structure of Windows CE .NET Help and details search tactics to help you locate the information you need to complete your embedded development goals.
• Platform Builder Tutorials
  Introduces the Platform Builder IDE and demonstrates how you can create customized embedded platforms.

 Last updated on Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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