Viewing WPP Tracing in Drivers.

Few days back i had to view trace messages in my code, sadly no one knew how to use it.
The code already contained wpp tracing which is mainly used for tracing messages in windows kernel drivers.
Here's how to view them very briefly !!!

1. -D RUN_WPP compile with it, basically code would be written in #ifdefs of this macro.
Using trace api's is not what i did, see link for it.
2. tracepdb -p abc.pdb -f c:\trace
This creates a .tmf file in c:\trace directory.
3. Create file with following content
c:\trace>cat abc.ctl
10oabe15e-c3ea-4fx24-x9x91-efb5bcdxxef
This long number is the control guid.
4. traceview
this is a gui application, I will ask for .ctl file & .tmf file, give it
and it will start tracing & showing in real time.
5. traceview will also create log file with .etl extension
To view it, convert to text:
tracefmt.exe -o logfile.txt -f logfile.etl

All command line utilities, tracepdb.exe, traceview, tracefmt.exe are part of WDDK (Windows Driver Development Kit), see tools directory.

Yea this is also called ETW (Event Tracing for Windows)

Link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/6/5d6eaf2b-7ddf-476b-93dc-7cf0072878e6/WPP_Intro.doc

Strive Ahead

Take from last sunday.

As Paul told the Philippians, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (3:13-14).

The rear view mirror of a vehicle is to be looked at certain times, but you should not be driving looking at it. The past is rear view mirror of Life.

Starter.

Rite, thinking about writing my blogs for a few days now!!
Being an asprising techie it will basically contain technical stuff, software coding is my passion.
I will be posting whatever I learnt which was interesting .

Being born-again it will contain some cool spiritual stuff.

Interest also include politics, sports (more tennis less cricket, something rare for indian desi)

I also easily get bored of doing things, they say that blogging is not boring, lets C.

Comments are so very welcome !!!