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. From the version for Windows XP the DDK and later the WDK include a command-line compiler to compile drivers. The DDK for Windows 2000 and earlier versions did not include a compiler instead one had to install Visual C++ separately to compile drivers. 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. Previously, the WDK was known as the Driver Development Kit (DDK) and supported Windows Driver Model (WDM) development. A complete toolset for driver development also need the following: a compiler Visual Studio, Windows SDK, and Windows HLK.
It includes documentation, samples, build environments, and tools for driver developers. The Windows Driver Kit ( WDK) is a software toolset from Microsoft that enables the development of device drivers for the Microsoft Windows platform. com /en-us /windows-hardware /drivers /index
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