Windows Driver Kit: Device Installation System-Defined Device Interface Classes

This section lists the system-defined device interface
classes
that support the following types of devices:

1394 and 61883
devices

Battery and ACPI
devices

Bluetooth
devices

Display and Image
devices

Interactive Input
devices

Modem
devices

Network
devices

Serial and Parallel
Port devices

Storage
devices

Kernel Streaming
Media devices

USB
devices

Windows Portable
devices

Windows SideShow
devices

The following information is included for each device interface
class:

• Identifier, GUID value, and WDK header file that defines the class.
• Whether the class is reserved for internal use only.
• Windows versions that support the class.
• Whether the class or class identifier is obsolete.
• Link to information in the WDK about devices that register instances of the
  device interface class.
• Link to a WDK sample, if one exists, that registers an instance of the
  device interface class for a device.

For information about how to register an instance of a device interface class
in an INF file, see INF AddInterface
Directive
.

For information about how to use SetupAPI to access device interfaces, see
the list of device interface functions that is provided in Using Device
Installation Functions
.

For information about how a kernel-mode driver can register an instance of a
device interface class, see IoRegisterDeviceInterface

.