Creating a WPD Driver for a Microcontroller-Based Sensor

Updated: April 18, 2008
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Creating a WPD Driver for a Microcontroller-Based Sensor

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Updated: Apr 10, 2008
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Windows Portable Devices (WPD) provides a driver technology that supports a wide range of portable devices. This white paper describes how to create a simple driver. This driver connects a temperature sensor through the WPD API to a sample application.

The driver sample and accompanying document are not intended as solutions for extensive sensor-based systems or robotics. For information about either, see the Microsoft Robotics Studio Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP

What's New:

Updated hardware ordering information.

Included in this download:

WPD driver whitepaper

WPD driver source code

Temperature-sensor firmware

Included in the white paper:

Creating the Temperature Sensor Device

Configuring the Driver Development Environment

Getting Familiar with the WPD Driver Model

Installing the Sample Driver

Porting the WpdHelloWorldDriver Sample

Supporting I/O

Supporting the WPD Infrastructure

Testing and Debugging the Temperature Sensor Driver


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