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Creating a WPD Driver for a Microcontroller-Based Sensor

Updated: April 10, 2008

File name: wpdtempsensordriver.exe
950 KB

About This Download

Windows Portable Devices (WPD) provides a driver technology that supports a wide range of portable devices. This white paper describes how to create a simple driver. This driver connects a temperature sensor through the WPD API to a sample application.

The driver sample and accompanying document are not intended as solutions for extensive sensor-based systems or robotics. For information about either, see the Microsoft Robotics Studio Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP

What's New:

  • Updated hardware ordering information.

Included in this download:

  • WPD driver whitepaper

  • WPD driver source code

  • Temperature-sensor firmware

Included in the white paper:

  • Creating the Temperature Sensor Device

  • Configuring the Driver Development Environment

  • Getting Familiar with the WPD Driver Model

  • Installing the Sample Driver

  • Porting the WpdHelloWorldDriver Sample

  • Supporting I/O

  • Supporting the WPD Infrastructure

  • Testing and Debugging the Temperature Sensor Driver
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