Virtual drivers with Windows Driver Model - where to begin?

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Published on 2010-07-04T14:11:44Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 22:54 UTC
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I've never written drivers before but I'm starting an open-source project that involves creating virtual MIDI ports that will send the MIDI data over a network.

For this, I presume I would be creating some sort of virtual driver using WDM (unless it's possible with kernel hooks?) - but being a beginner to driver development I don't know where to begin.

Does anyone know any useful resources that would help me with this project? Or some open-source code from a similar project that I could fork as a starting point?

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