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The MTP Device Simulator

The Media Transfer Protocol Device Simulator (MTP Simulator) is a fully-featured, self-contained device simulator that emulates an MTP device. Its primary purpose is to enable developers to exercise expected behavior based on the MTP specification by
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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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Driver Dev Guide: WPP Tracing in your WPD Driver

WPP Software Tracing is the recommended way to log trace and error messages in your WPD driver. WPP, short for W indows Software Trace P re P rocessor, provides an efficient real-time event logging mechanism. In addition, WPP traces include the system
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Driver Dev Guide: How to Post Events from your WPD Driver

DimeBy8 wrote a great post on how a WPD application can receive driver-initiated WPD PnP events; this post will describe the driver's side of our eventing story . While this mechanism is "under the covers" for most WPD application developers, it helps
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WPDMon Gotchas

If you're developing a WPD driver or a WPD application, you may have come across the WPD Monitor tool (a.k.a. WpdMon). This is a tool that displays WPD traffic between applications and a WPD driver for diagnostic purposes. Plug and Play (PnP) messages
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Debugging Your WPD Driver with Visual Studio 8

WPD drivers are based on the Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) – User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) platform. UMDF drivers provide greater stability and security than kernel-mode drivers while providing comparable performance. And, UMDF drivers allow the
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Building Driver Samples from the WDK

Help! The WPD driver sample doesn't build! Seeing this error while building the WPD driver samples using the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) build environment? errors in directory c:\winddk\6000\src\umdf\wpd\wpdhelloworlddriver NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't
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