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Friday, November 13, 2009 4:51 PM

Windows 7 Device Implementation Guidelines for Picture and Video Import

The Guidelines for Picture and Video Import in Windows 7 white paper provides information about the picture and video import feature in Windows 7. The white paper includes guidelines for OEMs designing digital cameras and camera-equipped portable devices
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:04 PM

WPD Platform Update for Windows Vista

Today we are announcing the final release of the Platform Update for Windows Vista , which includes an update to WPD to support new features introduced in Windows 7. The Platform Update for Windows Vista features a set of runtime libraries which add support
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Friday, October 23, 2009 5:52 PM

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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Friday, October 09, 2009 8:22 PM

Windows 7 Portable Devices and the Windows Logo Program

With the release of Windows 7 we are seeing a great deal of maturity of the Windows Portable Device (WPD) Platform. The WPD Platform includes the WPD APIs with WPD Automation and native Device Services, the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) class drivers
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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 18, 2009 2:24 PM

Windows 7 Driver Samples

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
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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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Friday, September 04, 2009 7:46 PM

Multi-Transport Devices in Windows 7

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.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:52 AM

MTP Over Various Transports

Introduction The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) was originally created as an extension to the Picture Transfer Protocol but today it also supports media transfer, Device Services, command & control, and many other scenarios. MTP supports three transports:
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Friday, August 21, 2009 9:15 PM

Introducing WPD Automation

In Windows 7, we introduced WPD Automation, which is a layer above the WPD API that exposes access to common WPD functionality through IDispatch. This post introduces this new component, and describes what you can and cannot do with WPD Automation, and
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 12:10 AM

Introducing Device Services

What are Device Services? "Device Services" is a brand new concept introduced in Windows 7 that provides a framework for device manufacturers to extend device functionality, and new APIs for applications to discover and access that extended
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Friday, August 07, 2009 11:03 PM

New Features for Windows 7

In Windows 7 we introduced several new features that improve how users discover and use devices connected to their PC. These new features simplify how device manufacturers present their devices, applications, and services in Windows. This behavior is
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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, November 26, 2007 9:51 PM

Creating a Temperature-Sensor Gadget for Windows Sidebar with C#

This article was written for application developers who are interested in displaying portable device data in the Windows Sidebar. It describes a Microsoft .Net application written in C# as well as a gadget for Windows Sidebar. The application was written
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