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        Building and testing a Windows CE stream driver

        Staff | Date: Mar 25, 2004 | Comments: 1


        In his latest Get Embedded MSDN column, Mike Hall explains drivers and gives instructions on building and testing a stream driver. "Before we dig into the process of writing drivers, it may be good to understand the purpose of a device driver," says Mike. "Drivers abstract the underlying hardware from the operating system and better still from an application developer.

        An application developer shouldn't need to know the specifics of your display hardware, or your serial hardware. Windows exposes application programming interfaces (API) for a developer to call into the hardware but the developer does not need to know what the physical hardware is (that's the beauty of APIs)."

        Check out Mike's new Get Embedded column at MSDN, available here