Hello everyone. I am developing ndis driver already some years. During that time i havv reinstalled windows, vs, sdk and ddk meny-meny times. After new installation everything was good and i coul continue my developing process. Some days ago i reinstalled a) these components again, but property page of my driver project is not normal. There are some missing options, there is no certificate option and also another options. I reinstalled vs some times, but everyting is tha same.
Is it enough to buy the Visual Studio community version to write drivers, or we have to bay something else? From where to bay and how it cost for only one programmer. Thank You.
Yes community edition is sufficient.
If you are truly stuck, the EWDK provides a complete toolchain for command line builds. No VS required.
The VS configuration is very specific about which WDK/SDK versions go with which VS versions.
I agree with @Mark_Roddy recommendation. Use the EWDK. Please can you elaborate on the missing components with your new dev setup. What was your last known good WDK + SDK + Visual Studio installation versions? and what are the current versions of WDK + SDK + Visual Studio you are having issues with? If you can also share some logs, that will be helpful too.
Thank You very much. As I say, already 5 years i engaged with ndis driver developing and some user mode program, that are accomponen to that driver. During this time i have reinstalled windows, VS, SDK and DDK many times, and everything was good. A 10 days ago I tryed to reinstall all that component once agein, but this time I can't get it to work at all. During this time I have installed meny different versions of VS. 2026 community (free version), 2026 proffesional (free trial), Also 2022. I have installed also wdk, EWDK(last one from internet). Every time when I load my user programms, everything goes good, but whe I load driver, there are some missing options in project propertyes. Only the following options are present -Configuration property, C/C++,Resources, Build events, Code Analizer. There are no Linler, Certificate and may be also another options. Als0, when I build my driver source cod, everything goes succesfull, but there is no output .sys file. I tried meny things, but nothing is help.
You said EWDK would be enough without VS. I tried, but EWDK doesn't have DevEnv.exe. How will it work without VS?
The EWDK can work with a compatible VS. See the EWDK section here: Download the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
Also see the troubleshooting section at the same link
VS2026 does not support the WDK currently.
Thanks, mr.Mark_Roddy.
Is it true that I can't develop a driver project using Visual Studio 2026? If so, where do I install older versions of VS? I keep trying to install older versions, but it always turns out to be VS2026.
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