Steps for an application to query a driver's version

Hi:

I'm new to driver development, just wonder what should be the steps to
implement this: On WinXP, a Windows application needs to query the version
of a running driver (a network device driver). What are the steps to
implement in the drver side (IOCTL?) and what needs to be done in the
application side? Just roughly steps should be good enough for me to start.

Thanks in Advance !
Polaris

In order to get the driver version from an already started (running)
network interface card (NIC) driver, query its
OID_GEN_VENDOR_DRIVER_VERSION. This can be done in several ways, e.g.
via IOCTL or WMI, see

http://www.ndis.com/faq/QA10290101.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
-> "Win32 and COM Development"
-> "Driver Development Kit"
-> "Network Devices and Protocols"

>From here see both:

-> "Design Guide"
-> "Miniport Drivers"
-> "Obtaining and Setting Miniport Driver Information and NDIS
Support for WMI"
-> "NDIS Support for WMI"

...and:

-> "Reference"
-> "NDIS Objects"
-> "General Objects"
-> "General Operational Characteristics"
-> "OID_GEN_VENDOR_DRIVER_VERSION"

Stephan
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Polaris wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm new to driver development, just wonder what should be the steps to
> implement this: On WinXP, a Windows application needs to query the version
> of a running driver (a network device driver). What are the steps to
> implement in the drver side (IOCTL?) and what needs to be done in the
> application side? Just roughly steps should be good enough for me to start.
>
> Thanks in Advance !
> Polaris