INF Tool for WDK 2008

NTDEV
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I downloaded the latest 2008 WDK from Microsoft Connect. After installing the WDK I see that there is no Tools directory showing up in my programs list. With the 2003 WDK I had access to a tool called GENINF. Does anyone know why this tool was removed for 2008?

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That’s strange - they’re should be, unless something has recently changed.

mm

xxxxx@intel.com wrote:

I downloaded the latest 2008 WDK from Microsoft Connect. After installing the WDK I see that there is no Tools directory showing up in my programs list. With the 2003 WDK I had access to a tool called GENINF. Does anyone know why this tool was removed for 2008?

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My bad.

I meant that there is a ‘tools’ directory, which after rereading your post, I’m not sure that’s what
you meant. There is no ‘geninf’ program in it, however, though I’ve never used it before.

mm

Martin O’Brien wrote:

That’s strange - they’re should be, unless something has recently changed.

mm

xxxxx@intel.com wrote:
> I downloaded the latest 2008 WDK from Microsoft Connect. After
> installing the WDK I see that there is no Tools directory showing up
> in my programs list. With the 2003 WDK I had access to a tool called
> GENINF. Does anyone know why this tool was removed for 2008?

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xxxxx@intel.com wrote:

I downloaded the latest 2008 WDK from Microsoft Connect. After installing the WDK I see that there is no Tools directory showing up in my programs list. With the 2003 WDK I had access to a tool called GENINF.

The Windows 2003 kit was still called the “DDK”

Does anyone know why this tool was removed for 2008?

It was removed earlier than that. It was in the 6000 (Vista) WDK, but
not the 6001 (Vista SP1) WDK. I suspect it just became a support
burden; they didn’t want to add a bunch of new classes for a tool that
isn’t used very much.

Fortunately, the older versions continue to work.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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More correctly: The older versions continue to “work”

This tool was pulled from the WDK for a zillion reasons, I would suspect:

  1. It NEVER produced complete INF files.

  2. For several years, it produced INF files for hardware devices that were blatantly broken.

  3. It had never been maintained or regularly updated

You should be happy it’s gone.

Do yourself a favor, skip GENINF and just write the relevant 6 or so INF lines that it used to write for you yourself.

Peter
OSR