Windows Portable Devices Team Blog

To develop WPD drivers for Vista SP1: - Build them using the Vista WDK (version 6000) or from the Longhorn Server Beta 3 WDK build environments. - WPD drivers built using Longhorn Server WDK Beta 3 will not run on Vista RTM or Windows XP, this is...

We've published two new WPD developer-centric whitepapers at the Microsoft WHDC website for WinHEC. The first covers how to do WMDRM metering and license synchronization from a WPD application; the second describes how to port the existing WPD "Hello...

We mentioned in a previous post that the WPD sample drivers are not designed to enumerate in Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) due to compatibility issues. This post covers the changes needed to enable the WPD Comprehensive Sample Driver (WpdWudfSampleDriver...

WPD Applications can specify a unique string "cookie" in the client information when calling IPortableDevice::Open : WPD_CLIENT_EVENT_COOKIE VT_LPWSTR Client supplied cookie returned by the driver in events posted as a direct result...