The Windows Portable Devices (WPD) SDK includes two sample command-line applications written in C++. The first application, WpdApiSample, lets the user accomplish tasks like: enumerating connected devices, exploring objects on these devices, and enumerating...

The Windows Portable Devices Driver Kit in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) comes bundled with five WPD sample drivers. Two of these drivers, WpdHelloWorldDriver and WpdWudfSampleDriver, were available in previous versions of the WDK. The remaining three...

There are several different resources made available to portable device manufacturers to assist in device firmware and driver development, and to application developers wishing to create applications that interact with these portable devices. These resources...

In Windows Vista, the WPD team shipped an MTP driver with support for two transports: USB and TCP/IP (typically WiFi). This expanded support also introduced an interesting problem: to Windows, the same device connected twice looks like two different devices...