Documentation of Win9x VxD Services

[Grendelbear]

I am looking for specific, detailed, technical documentation on the Windows 95/98 VxD Services, especially those provided by VKD.vxd.  Specifically, I need to know the register contents and return values for the Services VKD_Filter_Keyboard_Input and VKD_Get_Shift_State, but I would appreciate general info on all the VxD services available.

I have recently been asked to write MASM VxD keyboard hook routines for the Windows 98 platform.  I will use MASM Version 6.14 and I have the Win98 DDK, but I can't find any online documentation of the service routines listed in VKD.INC, and Microsoft doesn't seem to provide any Win98 DDK info on MSDN anymore.  I plan to use as a starting point Wizard Mark Russinovich's Ctrl2Cap.VxD framework (www.sysinternals.com), but I need to go beyond the example he sets forth in his code.

Does anybody have a favorite 'bible' of Win98 System internals which would cover the details of these services, either online or in book form?

I consider myself a resonably competent and technical programmer, but I've been out of the low-level business since Win3.1, and the current WinNT/Me/XP info available doesn't seem to be relevant to Win9x.  I've googled all over (I think), and I didn't find what I need.  Thanks in advance!
- G

[Rain Dog]

You probably already know this but there are a few books you can look at:

Charles Petzold: Programming Windows 5th ed.
Jeffrey Richter: Advanced Windows.

[Retsim_X]

try the microsoft development network MSDN

it has a great section on vxds...

[Vortex]

Hi Rain Dog,

Petzold's book ( the 5th edition ) doesn't cover the documentation of Win9x services.

[Opcode]

The right book to read is:

Windows 95 System Programming Secrets - Matt Pietrek

Regards,
Opcode

[Rain Dog]

Ahh yeah, i knew i was missing one. I forgot about Mat Pietriks book

[pbrennick]

And don't forget

Writing Windows VxDs and Device Drivers, 2nd Edition, by Karen Hazzah. Windows 95 driver development

Paul

[Grendelbear]

Thank you all for some excellent references.  I will keep my eye out for them.  I think I have the first three or four editions of Petzold already, but the fifth will round out my collection nicely.  The Hazzah and Pietrek sound especially interesting.
Thanks again,
-- Grendelbear