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Title: Poor Style and No Code Download/Disk - Still Somewhat Useful
Review: This book is a useful reference for the NT/Win2k driver developer, but it has a number of disappointing flaws which make it less practical.The authors attempt to be humorous by making frequent sarcastic remarks and the general tone is very informal--inappropriate for a developer's handbook. The book also appears to be poorly proofread, as some sentences don't parse and there are typographical errors in printed code. All these stylistic errors make the book much more difficult to use, as it takes more time and effort to locate and absorb the important content.The book does not include a disk or CD with source code printed in the text, and the authors' web site includes code for only a small minority of the programs mentioned in the book. If you want to try out the examples, you'll be spending a lot of time typing.On the whole, this book is useful, but I recommended it only until a better-written text is available.
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