MiniDriver in vista???

Hi!
I am new to device driver technology and working on porting the
existing device drivers for xp to vista. I have gone thru lot of RnD
and able to port many of the example code.

I am having a problem in installing the minidriver sample code which
is shipped with vista in location
"\WinDDK\6000\src\print\mini\mdw\canon10v". After building it for
vista environment, when i try to install it with the help of inf file,
i got error message "Printer driver was not installed. Operation could
not be completed". Any having idea regarding the same. Or if any
change in build procedure so that i can successfully install
minidriver on Vista Machine. others components provided in print
folders can be installed successfully. I am only facing problem in
installing minidriver.

Please reply.

thanks in advance for kind effort.

Dcls
Mon Jun 11 03:14:03 CDT 2007

Minidriver is part of WDM, isn't it?

Maybe, the error comes from the builder, which is trying to make an UMDF
driver...?

"mohit" wrote:

> Hi!
> I am new to device driver technology and working on porting the
> existing device drivers for xp to vista. I have gone thru lot of RnD
> and able to port many of the example code.
>
> I am having a problem in installing the minidriver sample code which
> is shipped with vista in location
> "\WinDDK\6000\src\print\mini\mdw\canon10v". After building it for
> vista environment, when i try to install it with the help of inf file,
> i got error message "Printer driver was not installed. Operation could
> not be completed". Any having idea regarding the same. Or if any
> change in build procedure so that i can successfully install
> minidriver on Vista Machine. others components provided in print
> folders can be installed successfully. I am only facing problem in
> installing minidriver.
>
> Please reply.
>
> thanks in advance for kind effort.
>
>

mohit
Mon Jun 11 23:46:52 CDT 2007

On Jun 11, 1:14 pm, Dcls <D...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Minidriver is part of WDM, isn't it?
>
> Maybe, the error comes from the builder, which is trying to make an UMDF
> driver...?
>
>
>
> "mohit" wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I am new to device driver technology and working on porting the
> > existing device drivers for xp to vista. I have gone thru lot of RnD
> > and able to port many of the example code.
>
> > I am having a problem in installing the minidriver sample code which
> > is shipped with vista in location
> > "\WinDDK\6000\src\print\mini\mdw\canon10v". After building it for
> > vista environment, when i try to install it with the help of inf file,
> > i got error message "Printer driver was not installed. Operation could
> > not be completed". Any having idea regarding the same. Or if any
> > change in build procedure so that i can successfully install
> > minidriver on Vista Machine. others components provided in print
> > folders can be installed successfully. I am only facing problem in
> > installing minidriver.
>
> > Please reply.
>
> > thanks in advance for kind effort.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

The sample code is provided with the vista sdk and it should get
installed successfully, after building in appropriate build
configuration. The code which comes with xp ddk gets compile
successfully and also gets installed. But the same code which comes
with vista ddk gets compiled successfully but couldn't get installed.
Why So?? Is this a bug that any of the minidirver sample code provided
with vista ddk couldn't get installed onto vista OS?

WeDoDrivers
Sun Jul 08 04:20:01 CDT 2007

The Vista .INF requirements are slightly different than the XP requirements.
Its probably just a little problem. We can find what's wrong in about 10
minutes if you send us the binary and .INF file.
-Jordan

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"mohit" wrote:

> Hi!
> I am new to device driver technology and working on porting the
> existing device drivers for xp to vista. I have gone thru lot of RnD
> and able to port many of the example code.
>
> I am having a problem in installing the minidriver sample code which
> is shipped with vista in location
> "\WinDDK\6000\src\print\mini\mdw\canon10v". After building it for
> vista environment, when i try to install it with the help of inf file,
> i got error message "Printer driver was not installed. Operation could
> not be completed". Any having idea regarding the same. Or if any
> change in build procedure so that i can successfully install
> minidriver on Vista Machine. others components provided in print
> folders can be installed successfully. I am only facing problem in
> installing minidriver.
>
> Please reply.
>
> thanks in advance for kind effort.
>
>