Developing Drivers with the Windows® Driver Foundation

Best Practices for Testing WDF Drivers

Tips for Building Drivers

Consider these best practices when building your driver:

• Build and test your driver for all versions of Windows that you plan to support. Building for the earliest version of Windows creates a binary of your driver that is compatible with all versions of Windows from that version forward. Building for the latest version of Windows provides the latest checks for your driver.

• Build your driver for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Compiling for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms can find problems in your code. In particular, compiling for 64-bit platforms can find problems related to pointers, subtle differences in the compilers, and inline assembly language, which is sometimes included ...