Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

Hah! I just ran into the toaster sample the other day. I was thinking about writing a low level device driver to emulate an XInput device. I know neither low level Windows programming, nor C++, nor the USB stack, so my adventure went quite poorly.

Nevertheless, I was encourage to see just how much sample code Microsoft provides. As a long time reader of Raymond Chen, I know not all of it is production quality, but you can practically copy/paste your way to a shipping product, as basically seen here.

Whether that's good or not is left as an exercise to the reader.