  Drivers have a special status among the developer community that sees them as
mysterious and inaccessible. We think their extensive communication with the
hardware and their need of high performance are the cause of this bad
reputation. According to a widely held view, these two requirements cannot be
met using high level languages. However high level languages' compilers and
runtimes made great progress these past years to enhance the performance of
programs. The use of these languages can also reduce by a significant amount
the number of bugs and security issues introduced by the programmers by taking
care of some error-prone parts like memory allocation and accesses. We also
think that using high level languages can help to demystify the drivers'
development. With this project, we try to develop a driver for a network card,
the Intel 82599, in C\#. Our goal is to find out the feasibility of such a
development and the performance of such a driver. We will also be able to tell
what could be missing today in C\# to write a driver. We base our driver on the
model proposed by Pirelli (2020) and its implementation in C.
