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User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) is a library assisting to develop user-mode drivers that support the Microsoft Windows Driver Model (WDM). UMDF provides common driver functionality, which enables to write a driver with significantly less code than in WDM. UMDF along with KMDF comprise the WDF (Windows Driver Frameworks).

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What is the difference between a WDM driver, a KMDF driver and a UMDF driver?

When creating a Windows Driver project in Visual Studio 2012, you have many different options to choose from. There's a page on MSDN that helps you with choosing the correct driver model for your device. It however doesn't clearly explain the exact…
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Is it worth to learn COM?

I am thinking to learn COM.But I heard that Microsoft launched .NET as an alternative to COM. So is it worth to learn COM? actually I started learning COM for UMDF device driver. Is there any alternate way to work on UMDF except COM?
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Can the windows sandbox feature be used for driver testing?

Doing windows driver development for first time, I want to deploy my first driver. But I don't have a second computer. Microsoft docs: Typically when you test and debug a driver, the debugger and driver run on separate computers. The computer that…
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Execute User-Application e.g (Notepad) from UMDF driver

The main objective is to know if there is a way to start or execute any user-mode application from UMDF (User Mode Driver Framework) event. It doesn't matter about the event. Any event may work e.g. DriverEntry, DeviceAttach I am working on a…
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Debug UMDF driver without two machines

Is it possible to debug UMDF drivers on the windows machine that I am developing them on?
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'Access is denied' error when calling CreateFile from a UMDF driver (C++)

I am creating a UMDF driver which needs to change the brightness of the LCD back light. The following line of code works in a Console App and successfully returns a handle to the device: HANDLE hDevice = CreateFile(L"\\\\.\\LCD", GENERIC_READ |…
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UMDF driver for loopback joystick device

I'm trying to write a UMDF device driver for a loopback (virtual) joystick device in Windows, similar to the uinput device in Linux. I'm familiar with C++, C (on Linux) and C#, and the application I'm writing this for, DroidPad, is written in C#.…
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Using the C++ standard library in a Windows User Mode Driver

I recently got tasked with writing Windows user mode drivers for our devices and have a good grasp of the WDF and UMDF basics, after reading up on the topic and studying the template projects in Visual Studio 2017. I'm determined to use as much…
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Cannot set friendly name for device in Windows 7

In my UMDF device driver I set a friendly name for my device programatically: HRESULT CMyDevice::SetFriendlyDeviceName(WCHAR * FriendlyName) { HRESULT hr = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_GEN_FAILURE); CComPtr upsf…
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Writing a UMDF virtual device driver (or software device) like Virtual DVD

I have an "off the shelf" commercial software using an ANT USB dongle to communicate with a cycling trainer. My trainer is not compatible with the software because the protocol is slightly different (not a lot). My goal is to write a protocol…
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UMDF, cannot specify [ClassInstall32] section for Microsoft-defined class

I'm working with the next tutorial: How to write your first USB client driver. And I've got a problem with compiling a project, I've got the next error: I was trying to do the steps closely to the description in tutorial, but always got the error…
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Visual Studio 2015 is always crashing with KMDF/UMDF deployment

My Visual Studio 2015 is always crashing when I'm trying to set the target device in Project Properties -> Driver Install -> Deployment part. Here, if to try to configure device, the VS2015 is crashing always. This behavior is the same both for…
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The device cannot start . (code 10) error in umdf driver development

I am trying to develope Umdf driver and i am completly naive to driver developement, I have taken a wdk sample code from following url :- https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Windows-Biometric-Driver-718005d7 I have changed the hardware…
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GUID error while building Windows driver via Visual Studio

I'm building UMDF Smart Card Reader Driver in Visual Studio. I get strange errors like that: error C2374: 'GUID_DEVINTERFACE_DISK' : redefinition; multiple initialization C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Include\UM\winioctl.h 43 1 …
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UMDF Development in .NET

Does anyone know if the current state of Microsoft's UMDF allows for driver development in .NET?
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