Questions tagged [wdk]

For questions about the Windows Driver Kit (WDK, formerly WinDDK), which includes the tools and documentation needed to develop drivers for the Windows platform.

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) includes the tools and documentation you need to develop drivers. WDK 8 Release Preview is integrated into Visual Studio and provides almost all of the tools you need for developing, building, packaging, testing, and debugging drivers.

For more information, visit the WDK website.

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What is the Microsoft name for WinDDK version 6001.18001?

I am trying to compile an old piece of code from 2009. In the compiler instructions the developer used Visual Studio 2008, .Net 2.0, and WinDDK: Microsoft Windows Driver Kit I need to know about WinDDK version 6001.18001 from the 2009 period. What…
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Developing a driver for several Windows versions (xp, win7, vista)

We are developing a DLL, which calls generic WinUsb functions from WinDDK. This DLL needs to work in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, including xp, vista, win7, and possibly win8. My question is, how can we manage the Visual Studio 2010…
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Pass macro to nmake

From my earlier post, I figured out why the command build /nmake "USER_C_FLAGS=/DMyVersion=3" doesn't associate the define MyVersion with value 3. MSDN says that - Compiling with /Dname= causes the symbol to not have an associated value. So,…
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What is _ALPHA_ macro?(windows device driver)

What is _ALPHA_ macro? I found this macro in this code. What do you use this macro for? Please tell me this macro or its references.
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Hook NtReadFile. Change text

I want to hook NtReadFile so that it can change text that is read from the file. But when I try to read a file, I get the message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". Here's my code. What's…
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Problems with remote debugging with kernel mode driver

I use windows7 host machine there I installed Vusual Studio 2013 and WDK 8.1 Also I have Windows 10 virtual machine using Virtual Box. I create new KMDF driver from template and try to debug it. I succsesfully provisioned target machine (which is…
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How does WinDbg itself work?

I have recently started windows driver development. I am wondering how does it actually debug my driver. The setup I have is --> Win7 as host, XP as guest on VMware, and I am debugging through serial port. The research I have done: I found only…
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WIndows driver to copy from user space to kernel space

New to Windows drivers . Read some stuff. Reasoning based on thatBased on that - WIndows driver to copy from user space to kernel space (known physical memory location). 1. What type of driver should it ideally be ? 2. What are the functions -…
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How to prevent Windows kernel locking up when manually writing to page table entries (PTE)

I've read on this topic for many many hours and tried a plethora of different strategies but can't get this to work in a stable manner. I am operating in the Windows kernel. I have allocated user-space memory for a process for their use. This…
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How to install QT on Windows in 2016

This is a WiKi for people that find installing QT for Visual Studio 2015 Edition quite impossible. Why? Because of the "LGPL Consultation Video" on the qt.io site, that may deter some people. Because unfortunately QT MINGW is less useful - Less…
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SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED exception found when starting driver service

NTSTATUS DriverEntry (_In_ PDRIVER_OBJECT DriverObject,_In_ PUNICODE_STRING RegistryPath) { NTSTATUS status; UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER( RegistryPath ); PT_DBG_PRINT( PTDBG_TRACE_ROUTINES, ("FsFilter1!DriverEntry:…
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Thermal printer Driver In windows

I am new to windows driver development, now i am developing Driver for our own thermal printer. So learn some Printer driver basics From MSDN (WDK source). Now i am printing with Generic TEXT/ONLY mode in windows .but i need to integrate my printer…
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