This DDK contains PREfast, which enables developers to perform easy desktop error detection in driver code.

The Microsoft Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK) is a consolidated driver development kit that provides a build environment, tools, driver samples, and documentation to support driver development for the Windows family of operating systems.

The DDK documentation includes topics such as the following:

￭ Instructions for using the DDK build environment and driver development tools
￭ Detailed information about Windows kernel-mode driver architecture
￭ Reference information about kernel-mode libraries
￭ Device-specific information about writing drivers for Windows device classes
￭ Information about installing devices and drivers

To download and use the DDK, you must burn the ISO file to a CD or DVD.