My visual studio 2013 ultimate doesn't have "Windows Driver" template in New Projects.
I mean that I want to have something like following picture:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh439665%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
How can i add this template to my visual studio? What packages should I install?
Thanks
After installing Windows WDK 8.1 I found that I had the missing templates I was looking for (drivers templates). So you'll need VS 2013, as well as WDK 8.1.
And ... ditto.
Installed VS 2013 pro, then installed the WDK 8 and/or 8.1 - no templates.
Control Panel, Change-> Repair -- no templates.
Reinstalled. Ditto.
Lots of Internet complaints, suggesting a "registration" problem with the install. Only positive outcome from those posts was 1 dude who reinstalled his whole OS just to get the VS and WDK working with a kmdf template option.
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My windows version is Win 10 1803. I installed Visual studio professional 2017, and along with that I installed SDK 10.0.17134.1 and WDK 10.0.17134.1. I restarted the system, and the visual code, yet the option of creating a Windows driver project under Visual C++ is not showing.
Methods tried:
Re-installation of WDK,
Rebooting the system,
Using same version of WDK and SDK as mentioned in Microsoft site.
This solution worked.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowshardware/en-US/465b2453-4fdc-48f4-98d8-6b2996238f25/preview-wdk-10016257-does-not-install-with-vs-2017-release
Since the extension that works with Visual studio does not pop-up on its own, manually executing through cmd solves the purpose.
Recently I installed Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise along with WDK 10 for 1709 My workloads contained C++ workload. . My machine is a Windows 8.1 Pro with net framework 4.6.1. After installing the WDK I expected the templates to come in the Legacy section of Visual C++ but no legacy option is present in it. I don't understand what is the problem. Please help me.
Thanks in advance
I resolved the issue. It was due to a missing windows 10 SDK. Reinstallating the WDK with appropriate SDK solved the problem
Developing drivers to windows is quite interesting one will be exposed to advanced Operating System Concepts. The set up for the environment will be IDE
IDE - Visual Studio (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=16)
Compilers (WDK)
Debugger (WDK)
WDK contains both(https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2085767). Latest Visual Studio(VS2019) will come along with the latest WDK(10, 1903 as of now).
Sometimes plugins might not work properly i.e integration issues between Visual Studio and WDk.
By going to the location "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\VS2019" and run VSIX installer.
Now in a new project, driver related templates are available.
Recently I've menaged to develop Windows Kernel Mode Driver so I started reading about that. I've read I need to download WDK. I use Visual Studio 2017 Community so I've downloaded WDK (for Windows 10) version 1709 (in default folder if it matters). When I try to create new project there should appear new templates for developing drivers but they don't.
(From what I've read I've deduced I only need to download the WDK and it's enough, am I right? It's described like that on MSDN)
So my question is: what am I supposed to do to the Kernel Mode Driver Project Template appear in Project Templates menu? I've really tried to google my problem and I did research but I haven't found anything usefull. I know it looks like very silly question and I'm so sorry if it does but I really don't know what to do, I tried many things like redownloading the WDK or downloading other version and so on but nothing helped. Any help will be appreciated.
Don't use Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 installed at the same time, I've seen this cause problems. Neither have two versions of WDK installed at the same time if you happened to have done this.
Uninstall all versions of Visual Studio on your machine.
Install Visual Studio 2017.
Install the latest version of Windows Driver Kit (WDK) for Visual Studio 2017.
Try again and see if the template shows up.
Did the installation of WDK throw any errors last time? Is the folders for WDK present under the Windows Kit area? We sort of need more details if possible, otherwise we'll just be guessing into oblivion for the next 1000 roman years.
When I try to install the Windows Phone Template Pack on Visual Studio Community 2015, the following error is obtained.
What is the reason? Where can I check the error log from?
Couple of issues:
The Windows SDK link you provided (http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=8442) is for Windows 7. It is not compatible with Visual Studio 2015 for Windows Phone development.
I think this error you're seeing with the Windows Phone Template Pack (HRESULT: 0x80070057) is because the Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Tools are not installed on your computer along with Visual Studio Community 2015.
I am able to reproduce this only when the Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Tools are not installed.
If I click skip, then I see the error dialog you included above.
To resolve this issue,
Go into the Control Panel
Open up Add/Remove Programs (or Programs & Features depending on your OS version)
Select Visual Studio Community 2015, then click Change
In VS setup, click Modify
Make sure that the "Tools and Windows SDKs" feature under "Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Tools" is checked.
If you're running Windows 8.0/8.1/10 x64 Professional or higher with a Hyper-V capable computer and then you should also be able to install the Windows Phone 8.1 emulators.
-Paul Chapman [MSFT]
Found this answer today, but it no longer works, or doesn't work if the host OS is Windows 7 Pro. I just installed Windows 7 Pro (plus all updates) and then VS2015 (plus all of ITS updates) on an otherwise CLEAN computer. NO SDK was installed. My options for modify look like this:
The Windows 8.1...Tools option is TOTALLY MISSING. The Windows 10.0 SDK is offered under the Universal Windows...Tools option, but that doesn't help me with Windows 7 targeted development.
Also, FWIW, the Windows 8.1 install tool that Microsoft is offering for download just gets an APPCRASH every time I try to use it (and yes, I've downloaded it several times, even to different machines, but always with the same result.)
So for me, I can either stick with Visual Studio 2010 or suffer the user interface abomination that is/was Visual Studio 2012 (not gonna happen). Sigh.
I have VS 2010 Professional installed on 64bit Windows 7. I installed the Windows Phone 7 developer tools, this ran fine without any hassle: I can start the emulator. However, when I try to create a project, I can't see the templates for phone development. I searched the installed templates, but they appear to be not installed. Any comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
If installed correctly, they will be under:
Installed Templates > Visual C# > Silverlight for Windows Phone (for Silverlight templates)
or
Installed Templates > Visual C# > XNA Game Studio 4.0
If you can see the options in the menu, but not the templates, check the version of the .NET Framework which is selected - from the dropdown at the top of the dialog.
You could also check they are installed by looking at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Silverlight for Windows Phone\1033
If they're not there, try repairing the install or reinstalling.