Can't Build sample VirtualSerial with VS Community 2022, WindowsUserModeDriver10.0 Build Tools not found (WDK is installed)

Question

Yesterday, I installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022

Version 17.10.4

VisualStudio.17.Release/17.10.4+35027.167

Microsoft .NET Framework

Version 4.8.09032

Visual C++ 2022 00482-90000-00000-AA903

Windows Software Development Kit - Windows 10.0.26100.1

Windows Driver Kit - Windows 10.0.26100.1

I open the VirtualSerial sample solution file (freshly downloaded from GitHub) and VisualStudio says:

C:\Users\dev\Downloads\VirtualSerial2\ComPort\VirtualSerial2um.vcxproj : warning : The build tools for WindowsUserModeDriver10.0 cannot be found. Install WindowsUserModeDriver10.0 to build using the WindowsUserModeDriver10.0 build tools.

What is wrong?

I use Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (x64 based)

Answer 1

Hello @Paul Sievers ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please make sure that you downloaded and installed the WDK from here: Install WDK. Also, please make sure that, in Visual Studio, you have installed the "Windows Driver Kit" extension(Extensions > Manage Extensions).

If you have installed above two extensions, please try to reinstall WDK.

Open Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > find "Windows Driver Kit – Windows 10.0.26100.1" > right-click it > click Uninstall.

Open Visual Studio > Extensions > Manage Extensions > find "Windows Driver Kit" extension > click Uninstall > close VS to uninstall it.

Download WDK from above link which I shared, install the WDK extension into VS again.

Feel free to let us know the results:)

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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