# Easy way to get DDK (Driver Development Kit)

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**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-get-ddk-driver-development-kit/216613 "2007-02-19T00:31:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-get-ddk-driver-development-kit/216613/1 "2007-02-19T00:31:06Z")

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The Windows Driver Development Kit is only available on their website in .ISO format. Is there anywhere I can get the kit as a packed zip/rar file? I don’t have a DVD recorder, so the whole .ISO thing is kinda a pain. Any places I can get it in a nice format?

Off Topic Question:

Why do all C/C++ functions have to have such UGLY names. Like in DirectX, it’s: U\_NT\_STATUS\_CREATEDRIVER(\*argv, argc);

In C# it’s so nice: device.CreateDriver(Format Format.Good);

So seriously, why do the C standard libraries have such ugly names (even the name stdafx.h is ugly and totally non-self documenting)?