You can debug User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) drivers by using either a user-mode debugger or a kernel-mode debugger. However, user-mode debugging requires only a single computer, and kernel-mode debugging requires both a host computer and a target computer. Regardless, you can use the WinDbg debugger and UMDF debugger extensions to debug your UMDF driver.

The following topics describe how to enable user-mode debugging and how to use UMDF debugger extensions: