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Friday, September 25, 2009 3:52 PM

Windows 7 Application Samples

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
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Friday, September 11, 2009 11:58 PM

Windows 7 Portable Device Development Kits

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
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:49 PM

Visual Basic .Net Sample for WPD

We've created a Visual Basic .Net sample for WPD and posted it to CodePlex: Microsoft's open source project-hosting web site. Take a look at http://www.codeplex.com/wpdtempsensor In addition to the Visual Basic project and source files, we've posted a
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:13 PM

Creating a Temperature Sensor Gadget for Windows Sidebar with C++

The following post describes a gadget for Windows Sidebar that displays the temperature reading from a temperature sensor device. Similar applications could be written to display: battery-level or available memory for a portable media device, contact
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Monday, May 07, 2007 7:51 PM

New Driver and Application Whitepapers Are Here

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
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:14 PM

WPD Development Kits and Downloads

WPD Application Development To get started on developing a WPD application, download the Windows SDK (Windows Vista or later). This contains the header and library files, build environment, and code for a sample WPD application. Earlier versions of the
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:24 PM

WPD and WMDM Side-by-side: An Application Development Perspective

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,
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:25 AM

How to Receive WPD Arrival Event Notifications

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 typically a result
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Friday, March 09, 2007 7:40 PM

Getting ERROR_BUSY (0x800700AA) after reading data from an MTP device?

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
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Friday, March 02, 2007 6:35 PM

Object Creation: Required Properties and Debugging Failures

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: VT_LPWSTR,
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Friday, February 23, 2007 2:40 AM

Enabling Your WPD application for AutoPlay on Windows Vista

The power of WPD derives from built-in extensibility mechanisms and scenarios around content type and device function. A good example is AutoPlay, which has been updated in Windows Vista to support WPD scenarios. Instead of providing the ability to only
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Friday, February 09, 2007 11:55 PM

Working with WMDRM Protected Content using 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
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:46 AM

Which Portable Devices?

What devices does WPD support? A WPD application (e.g. the WPD API Sample ) on Windows XP (with the pre-requisites installed) can connect to these devices: Devices (e.g. portable media players, cameras, some phones) that support Media Transfer Protocol
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:42 PM

Getting Your Feet Wet .... with WPD Development

Here’s a common question we get from developers: “I read about WPD from the MSDN library , but where do I download the samples, tools and build environment that are mentioned in the docs?“ Writing a WPD Application To get started on developing a WPD application,
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:59 AM

WPD on MSDN Library

Windows Portable Devices SDK Documentation (for application developers) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740786.aspx Windows Portable Devices WDK Documentation (for driver developers) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa528549.aspx Windows
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