Windows Legacy & Pnp Driver Programming
Published 5/2026
Created by Naga Sai Nikhil
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 76 Lectures ( 16h 21m ) | Size: 15.2 GB
⚡ Learn Driver Development
⚡ Learn how to handle PnP IRPs
⚡ Learn synchronization primitives
⚡ Learn Workitems
Requirements
❗ Basics of Programming is required
Description
This comprehensive course is designed to take students from the fundamentals of Windows driver development to advanced Plug and Play (PnP) driver concepts with practical, real-world examples. The curriculum focuses heavily on hands-on coding, kernel internals, and understanding how Windows communicates with hardware through drivers.
The course begins with the basics of Windows kernel driver development, including setting up a Windows virtual machine environment, writing a Hello World driver, and exploring important kernel structures such as DRIVER_OBJECT and DEVICE_OBJECT. Students will then learn how to create devices, symbolic links, and implement dispatch routines for handling Create, Close, Read, Write, and DeviceIoControl requests.
A major section of the course is dedicated to understanding IRPs (I/O Request Packets), IO stack locations, and the different METHOD_IO transfer mechanisms including Buffered I/O, Direct I/O, and METHOD_NEITHER. Each concept is demonstrated with practical examples using ReadFile, WriteFile, and custom IOCTL communication between user mode and kernel mode.
The course also dives deep into advanced Windows driver topics such as filter drivers, IRP forwarding, completion routines, asynchronous IRPs, synchronization primitives, spinlocks, mutexes, semaphores, timers, interlocked operations, linked lists, DPCs, WorkItems, Cancel Safe Queues (CSQ), and IRP draining techniques used in production-level drivers.
Students will further explore Plug and Play driver development by learning how to handle important PnP IRPs including IRP_MN_START_DEVICE, IRP_MN_STOP_DEVICE, IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE, resource enumeration, remove locks, PnP work items, translated resources, device usage notifications, and resource requirement filtering. The course also covers driver installation using INF files and pnputil, automatic driver updates, and user-mode asynchronous IOCTL communication.
In addition to video lessons, the course includes full source code projects, OneNote diagrams for visual learning, multiple code examples, and complete driver implementations including legacy drivers, upper filter drivers, and PnP drivers. This course is ideal for students interested in Windows internals, kernel development, reverse engineering, malware analysis, EDR development, or low-level systems programming
Who this course is for
⭐ Driver Developers
⭐ Malware Developers
⭐ Penetration Testers