The communication modes between driver and application program based on Windows 2000
Tefang Chen · Information technology newsletter · 2004
Driver is designed to serve the hardware, but at the same time, driver should be capable of communicating with the application. In this way, the application can get data from the device, give orders to the device and control the device. It is important for the security, stabilization and efficiency of the system to deal with the communication properly between the driver and the application. In this article, author studied the three communication modes between the driver and application under the Windows 2000 platform, analyzed their architectures and operational principles. The source code is also presented in detail.