1.4 Conclusion

Using WinDriver, a developer need only do the following to create an application that accesses the custom hardware:

• Start DriverWizard and detect the hardware and its resources.

• Automatically generate the device driver code from within DriverWizard, or use one of the WinDriver samples as the basis for the application (see Chapter 7 for an overview of WinDriver's enhanced support for specific chipsets).

• Modify the user-mode application, as needed, using the generated/sample functions to implement the desired functionality for your application.

Your hardware access application will run on all the supported platforms [1.7] - just re-compile the code for the target platform. (The code is binary compatible across Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista platforms, so there is no need to rebuild the code when porting the driver between these operating systems.)