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What is DDKWizard?

Figure 1: Driver wizard dialog
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DDKWizard is a so-called project creation wizard that allows you to create projects that use the DDKBUILD scripts from OSR (also available in the download section from this site). The wizard will give you several options to configure your project prior to the creation. Have a look at figure 1.

Figure 2: Project creation dialog
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Instead of forcing you to use a subset of options and specific DDKs this wizard lets you choose what you want. Of course the template files are predefined and so is the content of the project(s) within certain limits. However, I tried to choose the best options that I could think of and provide a way to create quickly and easily the DDKBUILD project you want. This means that I tried to leave out those things that may limit your choice lateron and add other options that will give you the flexibility to change options quickly long after the project was created.

DDKWizard adds a new subfolder in the project creation wizard - see figure 2 - and presents all supported project types there. Currently these are Driver, Empty Driver, Native Application, Win32 console application and Win32 DLL. In either case you just choose the type of project to create, give the name of the project and/or solution as well as other options (at the bottom) and you are being presented the wizard dialog (see figure 1). From the wizard dialog you choose the DDKBUILD script you want to use, the DDK or multiple DDKs as well as the other options. If you are curious about the Property Sheet feature, please download the manual and read the respective section there.

Compatibility

DDKWizard (1.2.0a) has been tested on the following configurations:

• Visual Studio Professional .NET with WNET DDK and DDKBUILD.CMD on Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard
• Visual Studio Professional .NET 2003 with WNET DDK and DDKBUILD.CMD on Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard
• Visual C++ 2005 Express with WNET DDK and DDKBUILD.CMD on Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard
• Visual Studio 2005 Professional with WNET DDK and DDKBUILD.CMD on Windows 2003 Server R2 Standard
• Visual Studio 2008 Professional with WNET DDK and DDKBUILD.CMD on Windows XP

From this list one can deduce that it is supposed to also run if you got the respective "non-Express" Visual C++ version. Also if there has been some Visual C++ .NET 2003 Express DDKWizard is prepared for it.

Download

You have these choices:

• Manual: contains the detailed description of how to configure DDKBUILD and use DDKWizard. If you are unsure whether you should download and install DDKWizard grab this file and skim over it.
  Download: ddkwiz_manual.pdf (~306kB, 2008-04-05@17-10-15, downloaded 9580 times)
• Installer (incl. manual) of DDKWizard 1.2.0a: this is the setup program which will install DDKWizard along with the manual on your computer and register it with Visual Studio.
  Download: ddkwizard_setup.exe (~356kB, 2007-11-25@16-47-28, downloaded 5656 times)
• DDKBUILD.BAT: Version 6.12 of OSRs DDKBUILD batch script version.
  Download: ddkbuild_bat.zip (~6kB, 2008-03-21@15-59-07, downloaded 1424 times)
• DDKBUILD.CMD: Version 7.2 of OSRs DDKBUILD NT script version. Feedback for this version can be sent to me directly.
  Download: ddkbuild_cmd.zip (~10kB, 2008-04-14@00-41-04, downloaded 1991 times)

License

All projects created by DDKWizard can be put under whatever license you like to put them. The scripts and HTML files which contain the DDKWizard logic are subject to the zlib/libpng license starting with version 1.2.0, before it was released under the GPL v2 from 1991.
The DDKBUILD scripts are mirrored with the permission of OSR. I will try to keep it synchronized at all times.

Everything else

Contact me here and also visit my blog and my website. Note that I usually announce new versions of DDKWizard and DDKBUILD on my blog - you also might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for DDKWizard and DDKBUILD. This page will be extended whenever I deem it necessary.

Last modified: 2008-01-20@19-07-03