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 drivers, WpdBasicHardwareDriver, WpdServiceSampleDriver...

In the previous post , we gave an overview of the WIA-WPD Compatibility Layer and how WIA Applications can register for WIA_EVENT_DEVICE_CONNECTED events. In this post, we will cover a more advanced topic: customization for PTP and MTP devices. The WIA-WPD Compatibility Layer supports basic extensibility...

In this two-part post, we will cover WIA support for cameras on Windows Vista, and the migration from WIA to WPD for richer applications. WIA-WPD Compatibility Layer On Windows XP, Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) cameras are accessible through the WIndows Image Acquisition (WIA) infrastructure...