1.3 Conclusion

1.3 Conclusion
	Chapter 1 WinDriver Overview

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 8 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 [1.6]–just re-compile the code for the target platform. (The code is binary compatible across Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008/Server 2003/XP/2000 platforms, so there is no need to rebuild the code when porting the driver between these operating systems.)


1.2 Background		1.4 WinDriver Benefits