Q) What's better way.(Using DriverStudio from Compuware or Win DDK sample source code)

Subject : What's better way.(Using DriverStudio from Compuware or Win DDK
sample source code)


Hello every one,


I have a DriverStudio that has a feature to generate a Driver source code
automatically.

Is it better way to adapt a source code from DriverStudio not from Win DDK
sample source code?

Please share your experience or your suggestion.

Detail experience will be more appreciate.


Thank you.


// Daum

kendolew
Tue Mar 07 05:42:38 CST 2006

both are ok, depending on what you want to do. I'd say compuware allows you
to quickly write code from scratch as their driver wizard is good, and also
it's in c++.

--
EWK Liew


"Daum" wrote:

> Subject : What's better way.(Using DriverStudio from Compuware or Win DDK
> sample source code)
>
>
> Hello every one,
>
>
> I have a DriverStudio that has a feature to generate a Driver source code
> automatically.
>
> Is it better way to adapt a source code from DriverStudio not from Win DDK
> sample source code?
>
> Please share your experience or your suggestion.
>
> Detail experience will be more appreciate.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> // Daum
>
>
>

Don
Tue Mar 07 07:02:04 CST 2006

Driver studio is a PIECE OF CRAP. The Compuware code will not pass the
static analysis tools that now come with the DDK, having things like
unitialized variables and other basic problems that any piece of code should
have worked out by the time it was released. I am getting a half dozen
requests a year right now for quotes to replace Compuware code, because it
is so bad.

You should look at KMDF if your driver meets its scope. This will simplify
your driver development and give you a solid code base.


--
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
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"Daum" <daum999@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Subject : What's better way.(Using DriverStudio from Compuware or Win DDK
> sample source code)
>
>
> Hello every one,
>
>
> I have a DriverStudio that has a feature to generate a Driver source code
> automatically.
>
> Is it better way to adapt a source code from DriverStudio not from Win DDK
> sample source code?
>
> Please share your experience or your suggestion.
>
> Detail experience will be more appreciate.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> // Daum
>
>

Gary
Tue Mar 07 10:27:46 CST 2006

I currently have a driver written using DriverWorks from CompuWare. I am
recommending that we re-write for a KMDF and stop paying Compuware the $2K a
year tat the charge for bug ridden code. As Don states, your driver produced
using Driveworks will fail DRVFAST/PreFast and CUV. The fact that these
tools have been available fr at least two DriverWorks releases, tells me
that Compuware has not taken the time to pass their own samples through
these commonly available developmet tools.

Frankly I am tired of having to fix the same PnP bug in their code, revorted
but verifier/CUV, every time I get a new release of DriverWorks.

--
The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little

"Daum" <daum999@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Subject : What's better way.(Using DriverStudio from Compuware or Win DDK
> sample source code)
>
>
> Hello every one,
>
>
> I have a DriverStudio that has a feature to generate a Driver source code
> automatically.
>
> Is it better way to adapt a source code from DriverStudio not from Win DDK
> sample source code?
>
> Please share your experience or your suggestion.
>
> Detail experience will be more appreciate.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> // Daum
>
>