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Announcement: 4

Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development announcements

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    WHCK forum has been created
    Doron Holan [MSFT] Monday, October 1, 2012 4:53 PM
    The WHCK forum has been created, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whck/threads . Please ask your cerification questions (workflow, packaging, errata/debugging issues, etc.) in this new forum.
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    Purpose of this Forum
    Jenstepper Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:41 AM

    The purpose of this forum is to help driver, device and kernel developers who have questions about the Windows WDK and about driver and kernel development.  Please post questions here about the tools, samples, headers and libraries and documents in the Windows WDK. 

Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements

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    Subscribe to the new hardware certification blog
    HLK Moderator Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:12 PM

    Windows Hardware Certification partners can now get news, info, and updates on the new Windows Certification blog. Partners can also post comments and join in conversations with the Certification team and other community members. The blog will replace the certification newsletter. Subscribe today!

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    Purpose of this Forum
    John Garcia (HCK) Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:47 PM
    The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.

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    Installing WDK minimal install gets into a loop of sorts?

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    1. Go to downloads page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-hardware/drivers/download-the-wdk and download just the WDK, "Download WDK for Windows 10, version 1903" ...
    Answered | 3 Replies | 195 Views | Created by Conrad Braam - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3:22 PM | Last reply by MaybeCompletelyW - 4 hours 17 minutes ago
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    Catalog files in INF

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    I am aware that the binaries that are distributed as part of a driver package are mentioned in the SourceDisksFiles INF section. If we need to distribute a CAT file (other than ...
    Answered | 8 Replies | 443 Views | Created by its_me_here - Monday, December 9, 2019 1:02 PM | Last reply by its_me_here - 10 hours 13 minutes ago
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    Failed to create an instance - npctest.dll

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    Hi, I have an issue with multiple HLK tests: [HRESULT: 0x8007007F] Failed to create an instance of ...
    Unanswered | 5 Replies | 483 Views | Created by zbidabro - Friday, December 6, 2019 12:33 PM | Last reply by zbidabro - Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:47 AM
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    How to solve the certificate has been cancelled by the issuer problem??

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    Hello everyone. I used the EV certificate to sign the driver file, and used the cabarc.exe tool to generate the cab file, and signed it with the same EV certificate. Uploaded to the dashboard of the ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 142 Views | Created by jason.Ray2019 - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 1:27 AM | Last reply by jason.Ray2019 - Thursday, December 12, 2019 7:05 AM
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    Practical Windows Code and Driver Signing discussion

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    Hello, my name is David Grayson and I work at Pololu Robotics & Electronics. I recently went through the process of signing all of our company's USB drivers and most of our installers for ...
    Discussion | 213 Replies | 41702 Views | Created by DavidGrayson - Wednesday, December 26, 2012 6:43 AM | Last reply by John Dallman - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 5:48 PM
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    DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0xD1)

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    !address -v 48b650 =================================================================================================== PDE: c0600010 [contains 56f93867] ...
    Answered | 16 Replies | 826 Views | Created by EugeneApp - Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:35 PM | Last reply by EugeneApp - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 6:48 AM
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    explorer.exe random crash

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    Hello, In my driver disk file system i have random problem : no bsod but explorer.exe random crash (exception). Explorer.exe exit and restart when i handle my ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 257 Views | Created by Sizy458 - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 8:45 PM
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    question on nvme driver in using windows apis

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
            Recently, I have worked on Windows nvme drivers. After reading “Working with NVMe drives” at ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 214 Views | Created by jamezhang - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 9:52 AM
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    HCK Error Message "Unable to sign package. Signing key is not loaded." in HCK Studio... What am I doing wrong?

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    I am trying to do a Driver Update (not Complete) in Windows Hardware Certification Kit. I got approved and downloaded my hckx file from my Sysdev dashboard. I modified my inf files and prepared them ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1115 Views | Created by AKA SIR - Monday, February 9, 2015 9:13 PM | Last reply by Mathan P - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 8:11 AM
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    Why my thread is blocked when no other thread owned the critical section

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    I am seeing performance issue in my code, when i took the dump of the application, i see most of threads are waiting for a critical section, that is not owned by any other thread. For example, when i ...
    Unanswered | 4 Replies | 201 Views | Created by Vijayan.S - Monday, December 9, 2019 11:38 PM | Last reply by Vijayan.S - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 5:05 AM
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    Cannot download HLK: Unable to verify the integrity of downloaded content

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    Hello, For the past 1-2 weeks I have been attempting to download the HLK using the links from the ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 544 Views | Created by DLng - Friday, June 7, 2019 11:13 PM | Last reply by sekihdn - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3:45 AM
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    HLK Automation with Windows Compatibility Playlist

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    I am in the process of automating my HLK tests for a device and am having trouble using the compatibility playlist provided by Windows ...
    Unanswered | 3 Replies | 1286 Views | Created by Dawg_by_nature - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 7:07 PM | Last reply by Levi Riley - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 1:28 AM
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    WDI Driver initialization

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    In create port oid , i am getting create port parameters structure as null. Even through i have filled all the required parameters in get adapter capabilities. Anyone please help.
    Unanswered | 3 Replies | 710 Views | Created by Sanjay_Kumar_k - Friday, November 15, 2019 5:29 AM | Last reply by Brian Catlin - Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:05 AM
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    STATUS_REPARSE don't work with method PREPARSE_DATA_BUFFER

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    Hello, Then option '_shareconfig' is equal to 0 or 1 , it work good. Why the method redirect by PREPARSE_DATA_BUFFER don't work ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 269 Views | Created by Sizy458 - Saturday, December 7, 2019 12:11 PM
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    Where is Windows 10 Attestation Signing Page?

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    For several years I have been submitting my File System Filter Drivers (FSFD) for Windows 10 Attestation signing at a page that looks like the screen shot below (but specifically for Windows 10). ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 425 Views | Created by Neil Weicher - Friday, December 6, 2019 12:13 PM | Last reply by Neil Weicher - Friday, December 6, 2019 7:14 PM
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    W10 - HLK - MTP Compliance tests fails mtpinfup.exe

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    Hi! I am running the compatability playlist on a device certified on <w10. But when executing any of the MTP Compliance tests, the test fails during MTP Test ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1331 Views | Created by Julian Kroné - Wednesday, October 7, 2015 9:34 AM | Last reply by Levi Riley - Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:03 AM
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    Scanners are not listed in network

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware Testing and Certification
    Hey folks, I am a junior engineer, so please be patient with me. We also are Hardware Developer and we wish windows to find our Scanners in the windows explorer, ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 342 Views | Created by Arntor - Wednesday, December 4, 2019 2:47 PM
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    UNC work good .Question about STATUS_REPARSE ??

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    DeviceExtension; NTSTATUS ret = STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST; if (irps->MajorFunction == IRP_MJ_CREATE) { fileObject = irps->FileObject; if ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 454 Views | Created by Sizy458 - Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7:18 PM
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    Ethernet Phy loopback

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    Hi All, I have a windows 10/intel i7 based products.  There are 3 ethernet ports in the system based on intel I210 ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 601 Views | Created by Abhilash VR - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:18 AM | Last reply by Jeffrey Tippet [MSFT] - Monday, December 2, 2019 11:06 PM
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    Set up a project in Visual Studio Code or CLion using CMake (KMDF)

    Windows Desktop Development
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    Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development
    Hello, I'm trying to set up a project with cmake in visual studio code or clion for a WDK (KMDF) project. Does somebody know or have a configured CMakeLists.txt and can ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 560 Views | Created by EyalB7 - Friday, November 29, 2019 2:09 PM | Last reply by Pavel A - Monday, December 2, 2019 10:03 PM
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Announcement: 4

Windows Hardware WDK and Driver Development announcements

  • Link
    WHCK forum has been created
    Doron Holan [MSFT] Monday, October 1, 2012 4:53 PM
    The WHCK forum has been created, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whck/threads . Please ask your cerification questions (workflow, packaging, errata/debugging issues, etc.) in this new forum.
  • Link
    Purpose of this Forum
    Jenstepper Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:41 AM

    The purpose of this forum is to help driver, device and kernel developers who have questions about the Windows WDK and about driver and kernel development.  Please post questions here about the tools, samples, headers and libraries and documents in the Windows WDK. 

Windows Hardware Testing and Certification announcements

  • Link
    Subscribe to the new hardware certification blog
    HLK Moderator Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:12 PM

    Windows Hardware Certification partners can now get news, info, and updates on the new Windows Certification blog. Partners can also post comments and join in conversations with the Certification team and other community members. The blog will replace the certification newsletter. Subscribe today!

  • Link
    Purpose of this Forum
    John Garcia (HCK) Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:47 PM
    The purpose of this forum is to help those who have questions with the Windows testing and certification processes used with the Hardware Certification Kit (HCK). Please post questions here about the tools, processes and tests used in testing, packaging, and certifying drivers.
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