Question on KMDF driver from XP to Vista

NTDEV
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My driver works fine on Windows XP.

I am using KMDF 1.1 with the following co-installer WdfCoInstaller01001.dll.

What do I have to do to get my driver to work on vista?

Are there INF entries that need to change or be added? Is there a different co-installer that is needed?

I have never done anything on Vista, so I am unfamiliar with what will need to change to support vista.

Thanks In Advance.

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Nothing would need to be done in your INF. Note that you will run against v1.5 on vista since vista ships with that version

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Subject: [ntdev] Question on KMDF driver from XP to Vista

My driver works fine on Windows XP.

I am using KMDF 1.1 with the following co-installer WdfCoInstaller01001.dll.

What do I have to do to get my driver to work on vista?

Are there INF entries that need to change or be added? Is there a different co-installer that is needed?

I have never done anything on Vista, so I am unfamiliar with what will need to change to support vista.

Thanks In Advance.

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So, is it possible that if I upgrade to v1.5, my issue could go away? (ie, Would v1.1 work on vista?)

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xxxxx@yahoo.com wrote:

So, is it possible that if I upgrade to v1.5, my issue could go away? (ie, Would v1.1 work on vista?)

What issue? You haven’t said anywhere that you are experiencing a
problem. You just asked if KMDF drivers will work on Vista. The answer
is “yes”.

The KMDF DLLs are upward compatible. On Vista, your driver will use the
1.5 helper DLL and never know the difference. The co-installer will
simply do nothing, because the helper is already present.

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

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You cannot get v1.1 on vista w/out forcing it yourself. the installer will not install that version. What is your issue? The interrupt connect problem? That is in the os itself, not in kmdf. Vista does bring msi to the table, while xp did not support msis

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Subject: RE:[ntdev] Question on KMDF driver from XP to Vista

So, is it possible that if I upgrade to v1.5, my issue could go away? (ie, Would v1.1 work on vista?)

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Thanks for the help guys. Sorry I wasn’t very clear. I was just trying to find out if there was anything special I needed to do to get my driver to work on Vista before I started digging into why it didn’t work on Vista.

Vista was never a requirement when I wrote the driver, and I have been informed that it didn’t work on Vista. I didn’t get any more details than that so I didn’t have more detailed information to provide. It sounds like it probably didn’t install and that is why it didn’t work. That is the “issue” I was talking about. I was not trying to imply anyone at fault here.

It sounds like i need to use the WdfCoInstaller01005.dll coinstaller and upgrade to to v1.5.

Again, thanks for the responses.