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 _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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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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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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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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