How to Prepare for UMDF Debugging
UMDF drivers are user-mode DLLs that are hosted in an instance of WUDFHost. The debugging techniques are thus similar to those used with services. Setting up debugging is much simpler than for kernel-mode drivers. In particular, both WinDbg and the target driver can be on the same computer. This section discusses how to prepare the system and start a debugging session.
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Before you can start debugging, you must install the driver and the debugging tools on a computer running the target version of Windows.
Chapter 20 provides more information on how to install UMDF drivers.
How to Enable Debugging of Driver Load and Startup Code
You start the debugging process by attaching WinDbg to the instance of WUDFHost that ...
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