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... does anyone remember that?

I used it for Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP drivers, can anyone recommend
something similar for Vista or are we stuck with Microsoft's DDK?

Thanks.

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Gordon Smith

If you feel it's necesary to e-mail me directly my address should be:

gordon at gordys dot demon dot co dot uk

DriverStudio has thankfully been discontinued (having run modern static
analysis tools on the source it had thousand of bugs). You can still buy it
but no support, no upgrades, etc.

Most people are shifting to WDF which Microosoft provides that handles the
problems of Pnp/Power and other details for you. It has two flavors KMDF
(kernel mode driver framework) and UMDF (user mode driver framework).


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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Blog: http://www.yqcomputer.com/
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Thanks for that Don. Does WDF have a "handy" wizard / driver generator?
As someone who only wrote drivers occasionally I found DriverStudio and
the DriverWorks wizard seemed okay and I don't recall any odd or
unexplained behaviour (that I could put down to any of the "thousand of
bugs" ;-) ).

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Gordon Smith

If you feel it's necesary to e-mail me directly my address should be:
gordon at gordys dot demon dot co dot uk

No it does not. It does have a bunch of pretty good samples (in the WDK and
a few at http://www.yqcomputer.com/ ), and a book you can buy from Microsoft
press "Developing Driver with the Windows Driver Foundation". Otherwise
you are on your own.


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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Blog: http://www.yqcomputer.com/
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Amazon strikes again, just ordered the book. Thanks again.

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Gordon Smith

If you feel it's necesary to e-mail me directly my address should be:
gordon at gordys dot demon dot co dot uk

Oh but I used DriverStudio and I can recount bugs I fixed in DriverStudio,
reported them, and had to refix, again and again and again with each
succesive release of DriverStudio. They NEVER got power management to the
point it would pass Verifier. Prefast? Don't run a DriverStudio developed
driver against PreFast ... unless you want to become ill.

The operative word here is "occaisionally". Once you got passed the pretty
wizards and had to dig into the guts of the kernel to find the problems
created by DriverStudio, I at least, realized I should never have been dup'd
by the marketing hype. We wasted over $4k for two years of garbage. Not to
mention the fact that they were always 6 months to 2 years behind the curve
as far as supporting new code features in WDM; e.g. CSQ and in-stack
spinlocks.

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Gary G. Little