way OT: Windows 98 DDK

[Vaughn Treude]

Hello all:

I hate to even bring up this subject in this group, but I'm pretty frustrated 
- and I'm also complaining about Microsoft, which makes it slightly relevant. 
  Here's the story- I happen to be working on an embedded project which 
requires a PC-based configuration app (Windows, unfortunately.)  I have 
Visual C++ which I know pretty well, but also need to support USB.  From my 
research I understand that I need the Windows DDK to compile the USB code, 
even though I'm using a standard HID class interface and I really only need a 
couple of header files.  I spent a couple of hours googling on this, and 
there are a lot of articles that say that the Windows 98 DDK is free from MS. 
 Wrong!  MS doesn't officially support it anymore and it's now available only 
to MSDN subscribers.  This really burns me up.  I don't do Windows all that 
much any more (being primarily an embedded and Linux guy now) so I don't want 
to waste $199 on an MSDN subscription.  But it really does not seem to be 
available for free (or for a reasonable price) anywhere.  I did find a site 
in Korea which claimed to have it, and I tried to download it several times, 
but the download would always die after about a megabyte.  What I'm saying is 
that I'm trying to be a mooch again.  Would anybody happen to have an old 
Windows DDK CD they're not using any more?  Or is there some secret way a 
person can download it?  Thanks and have a very happy Turkey Day!


Vaughn Treude