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...

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 are provided and maintained by members of...

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) to appear as a portable device in WMP11 and...

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 World" sample driver to communicate with a Parallax...

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, libs, sample code ...) for developing a WPD...

Setting up your WPD application to handle protected WMDRM content The WPD API supports the transfer and licensing operations for Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM) content. This MSDN article describes two additional properties that are required to enable your WPD application to transfer...