Windows Driver Kit
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release1992 (1992)
Stable release
10.1 / November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Available inEnglish
LicenseProprietary commercial software
Websitedocs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/index

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is a software toolset from Microsoft that enables the development of device drivers for the Microsoft Windows platform.[1] It includes documentation, samples, build environments, and tools for driver developers.[2] A complete toolset for driver development also need the following: a compiler Visual Studio, Windows SDK, and Windows HLK.

History

Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK)[3] and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. It got its current name when Microsoft released Windows Vista and added the following previously separated tools to the kit: Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit), Driver Test Manager (DTM), though DTM was later renamed and removed from WDK again.

The DDK for Windows 2000 and earlier versions did not include a compiler; instead one had to install Visual C++ separately to compile drivers. From the version for Windows XP the DDK and later the WDK include a command-line compiler to compile drivers. One of the reasons Microsoft gave for including a compiler was that the quality of drivers would improve if they were compiled with the same version of the compiler that was used to compile Windows itself while Visual C++ is targeted to application development and has a different product cycle with more frequent changes. The WDK 8.x and later series goes back to require installing a matched version of Visual Studio separately, but this time the integration is more complete in that you can edit, build and debug the driver from within Visual Studio directly.

DDK versions

VersionBuild numberRelease date
Windows 3.0 DDK1990
Windows 3.1 DDK1992
Windows NT 3.1 DDK1993
Windows NT 3.5 DDK1994
Windows NT 3.51 DDK1025.1July 1995
Windows 95 DDKOctober 1995
Windows 95 DDK aJune 1996
Windows 95 DDK b
Windows 95 DDK c (MSDN July 1998)June 1998
Windows NT DDK (for Windows NT Workstation 3.51)July 1996
Windows NT DDK (for Windows NT Workstation 4.0)1381.1August 1996
Windows 98 DDKJuly 1998
Windows 98 SE DDKMay 1999
Windows 2000 DDK2195.1February 2000
Windows XP Driver Development Kit (DDK)2600September 21, 2001
Windows XP SP1 Driver Development Kit (DDK)2600.1106November 14, 2002
Windows Server 2003 DDK3790April 9, 2003
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 DDK3790.1830April 6, 2005

Note: Windows NT DDK, Windows 98 DDK and Windows 2000 DDK are no longer made available by Microsoft because of Java-related settlements made by Microsoft with Sun Microsystems.[4]

WDK versions

VersionBuild numberRelease dateDevelops drivers forVisual Studio integrationNotes
Windows Driver Kit for Windows Vista6000November 29, 2006Windows Vista--
Windows Driver Kit – Server 2008 (x86, x64, ia64)6001.18000Jan 2008Windows XP SP1 – Vista SP1, Windows Server 2000 SP4 – 2008--
Windows Driver Kit – Server 2008 (x86, x64, ia64)6001.18001April 1, 2008---
Windows Driver Kit – Server 2008 Release SP1 (x86, x64, i64)6001.18002December 8, 2008Windows XP SP1 – Vista SP1, Windows Server 2000 SP4 – 2008 SP1--
Windows Driver Kit 7.0.07600.16385.0August 6, 2009Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2--
Windows Driver Kit 7.1.07600.16385.1February 26, 2010Windows XP SP3 – 7, Windows Server 2003 SP1 – 2008 R2-[5]
Windows Driver Kit 8.08.59.25584August 15, 2012Windows 7 – 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 – 2012Visual Studio 2012Downloads before 8/17/2012 had a bug in WDF co-installer[6]
Windows Driver Kit 8.18.100.26638September 16, 2013Windows 7 – 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 – 2012 R2Visual Studio 2013[7]-
Windows Driver Kit 8.1 Update8.100.26846August 20, 2014Windows 7 – 8.1 Update, Windows Server 2008 R2 – 2012 R2Visual Studio 2013-
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 150710.0.26639July 2015Windows 7 SP1 – 10Visual Studio 2015 RTM – Update 3-
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 151110.0.10586November 2015Windows 7 SP1 – 10 Version 1511Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 – 3Windows 10 November Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 160710.0.14393August 2016Windows 7 SP1 – 10 Version 1607 (Excludes Win10 Version 1507 & 1511)Visual Studio 2015 Update 3Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 170310.0.15063April 2017Windows 7 SP1 – 10 (Version 1607 & 1703 only), Windows Server 2008 R2 – 2016Visual Studio 2017 Ver.15.1Windows 10 Creators Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 170910.0.16299October 2017Visual Studio 2017 Ver.15.4Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 180310.0.17134April 2018Windows 10 April 2018 Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 1809[8]10.0.17763October 2018Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Windows Driver Kit 10, Version 190310.0.18362.1April 2019Windows 7 SP1 – 10 (Version 1607 to 1903), Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – 2019Visual Studio 2019 Ver.16Windows 10 May 2019 Update

See also

References

  1. ↑ Enrico Perla; Massimiliano Oldani (2010). A Guide to Kernel Exploitation; Attacking the Core. Elsevier Science. p. 277. ISBN 9781597494878.
  2. ↑ BHATT, PRAMOD CHANDRA P. (2019). AN INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS : CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE (GNU/LINUX AND WINDOWS), FIFTH EDITION. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. p. 529. ISBN 9789387472884.
  3. ↑ Bill Blunden (2009). The Rootkit Arsenal; Escape and Evasion. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 142. ISBN 9781449661229.
  4. ↑ MSDN: Products Unavailable due to Java-related Settlement
  5. ↑ Windows Driver Kit Version 7.1.0
  6. ↑ WDF co-installer issue
  7. ↑ Kraig Brockschmidt (2014). Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Pearson Education. p. 1002. ISBN 9780735695702.
  8. ↑ Liu, Zhifeng; Zheng, Desheng; Wu, Xinlong; Chen, Jixin; Tang, Xiaolan; Ran, Ziyong (2021). VABox: A Virtualization-Based Analysis Framework of Virtualization-Obfuscated Packed Executables. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security. Springer International Publishing. pp. 73–84. ISBN 9783030786212. We use Visual Studio 2017 and WDK for Windows 10, version 1809 for development.
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