Windows Portable Devices Team Blog

DimeBy8 wrote a great post on how a WPD application can receive driver-initiated WPD PnP events; this post will describe the driver's side of our eventing story . While this mechanism is "under the covers" for most WPD application developers, it helps...

If you followed the standard WPD events link in our previous post on WPD driver events, you may have seen the following event definition: WPD_EVENT_DEVICE_REMOVED This event is sent when a driver for a device is being unloaded. This is...

This post will compare WPD and the latest version of Windows Media Device Manager (WMDM) , from an application developer's point of view. Availability (aka SDK and Runtime Requirements) The Windows SDK contains the complete build environment (headers...

One common cause of the ERROR_BUSY (0x800700AA) in MTP devices is when the application reads resource data from a content object on the portable device using IStream::Read(), and does not complete the read with an IStream::Close(). Subsequent operations...

Basic Set of Properties for Folder Creation When creating a folder object, the following properties are required when calling IPortableDeviceContent::CreateObjectWithPropertiesOnly : WPD_OBJECT_PARENT_ID: VT_LPWSTR, Parent Object ID WPD_OBJECT_NAME...