What IDE?

[NtroP]

Hi, I want to use VS2008 (or some decent IDE) to do driver development (using the WDK) but I can't seem to figure out how to get some fairly basic 'features' working.

As there was no 'driver' build target that I could see I'm using DDKBUILD to call the 'build' script distributed with the WDK. This works fine until I get a compile error. At this point I would like some indication to appear in the GUI as to what line the error occured on etc. but at the moment I can't figure out how to do this. I assume there must be a way as it seems unlikely that driver developers are trawling through log files to discover errors etc.

I understand that VS isn't officially supported as a driver development platform but I fail to believe that everyone is hacking around in cmd.exe windows etc.

Any help or alternative suggestions are appreciated,
NtroP

[thelamb]

I just do all coding in VS, save the .c fille somewhere, create the SOURCES and MAKEFILE files then use the 'Checked Build environment' that comes with the ddk to build the source, it shows you the lines where the error occurred, just in a seperate window rather than in VS itself.

As far as I know it is possible to do everything in VS but it's a real hassle, not worth (yet) for me as all it takes is alt-tab and type 'build'

[hash3d]

I lost couple of days trying to configure VS2005 to work properly - it was a waste of time.

Just create a folder, put all the files needed for WDK to build properly, make a "makefile" project and put manually all files there.
I use VS just for editing the files, a checked build environment where i do a "build -bew" and check for compile errors
Then I have WinXP SP2 installed in VMWare for testing, and WinDBG debugger running, configured as descriped on tutorial here: http://catch22.net/tuts/vmware