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- Introduction to the WDF User-Mode Driver Framework
- The Windows Driver Foundation WDF is Microsoft's next-generation driver model. WDF includes frameworks to support both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, along with driver testing and verification tools. The User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF component of WDF enables drivers for some types of devices to run in user mode instead of kernel...
- Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Windows Driver Foundation, UMDF, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Construction, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-06-02
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- An Introduction to COM for UMDF Developers
- This paper provides a basic introduction to COM programming as it is used by User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF that is part of the Windows Driver Foundation WDF. The paper is especially intended for kernel-mode driver developers with little or no COM experience, but any developer who is getting started with...
- Tags: Developer, COM, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-10-03
- I/O Flow and Dispatching in WDF Drivers
- I/O processing is the heart of any driver. To understand how to implement robust I/O handling code in the driver, one must understand how I/O requests flow from an application to the driver, how the Windows Driver Foundation WDF simplifies the driver's I/O processing tasks, and what the driver should...
- Tags: I/O
- White papers 2007-04-10
- Writing USB Drivers With WDF
- A primary design goal for WDF was to make the driver models easy to extend to support new types of hardware. The first hardware-specific specialized I/O targets in both UMDF and KMDF support USB devices. One can use the USB I/O targets to write a fully functional Windows driver for...
- Tags: USB
- White papers 2007-04-09
- Sample Drivers for the User-Mode Driver Framework
- This paper provides information about the sample drivers that are supplied with the User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF, which is a component of the Windows Driver Foundation WDF for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It steps through the Skeleton sample driver and explains the structure of a UMDF driver....
- Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-05-16
- Plug and Play and Power Management in WDF Drivers
- The Windows Driver Foundation WDF implements a fully integrated model for Plug and Play and power management in both the User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF and the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework KMDF. The model provides intelligent defaults so that some drivers do not require any code to support simple Plug and Play...
- Tags: Power Management, Windows Driver Foundation
- White papers 2007-04-09
- Architecture of the User-Mode Driver Framework
- The Microsoft Windows Driver Foundation WDF includes frameworks to support the development of both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers. The User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF enables drivers for some types of devices to run in user mode instead of kernel mode. This paper describes the architecture of the user-mode driver framework and...
- Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Framework, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-02-21
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