Building and deploying a basic WDF Kernel Mode Driver

At the end of December 2005, Microsoft released the new Windows Driver Foundation. This is a new framework for building windows device drivers. It is a lot more high level than the Windows Driver Model (WDM), and as such it is easier to learn, and less time consuming to develop drivers with.

This article will show you how to code, build and deploy a skeleton WDF Kernel Mode Device Driver.

This article does not explain all the low level concepts behind driver development. To learn these basic concepts, check out the materials mentioned in the ‘Related material’ chapter. This would be far too much to explain in 1 article.

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