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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:14 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] SURVEY: Using more than one version of the WDK
Recently in a discussion with the WDK team, the problem of working in
multiple versions of the WDK was brought up. Microsoft does not see this
problem internally since it uses the latest WDK for almost everything. So
I would like to ask a simple survey to folks on NTDEV:
1… In normal work do you have more than one version of the WDK in use?
If so why?
[PCAUSA] Of course! Drivers that must be maintained currently span the W2K
to Win7 platforms. Must “revisit” projects built under older tools
occasionally and there is risk is switching to new build tool to debug or
fix small problem in older driver.
My development machine has 8 DDK folders, but some of the older ones are not
“installed”. Just keep header files, sample code and documentation for
reference.
I actively use 3790.1830 and 6001.18002. The Win7 WDK is around “somewhere”
but not on precious development machines.
2… When the WDK beta comes out, do you try it with current projects? If
so do you try to use the same copy of the sources for both, or clone one
specifically for the beta?
[PCAUSA] I will try to use the newer DDK as time permits. Usually start
with a copy of a build tree from previous DDK as starting point.
Testing with new DDK is first done on machine that can be re-imaged since
there are too often side-effects that cause unanticipated problems (like
help files that quit working…).
3… Have you encountered problems with using more than one WDK? Would you
like to have a way to conditionalize the build files or the driver source
for differing WDK versions?
[PCAUSA] No real problems, but my drivers are generally simpler than most.
Thomas F. Divine
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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr
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