Professional Windows® Embedded Compact 7

USING REMOTE TOOLS

You can use the various Compact 7 Remote tools (refer to Chapter 9, “Debug and Remote Tools”) to check on the functionality of a device driver. There is also an API that can facilitate the development of custom tools. Table 34-3 is a summary of the uses of the Remote Tools in driver debugging.

TABLE 34-3: Remote Tool Driver Debugging

REMOTE TOOL	CHECKS
File Viewer	That the loaded image has the driver DLL in\Windows.
Registry Editor	That driver registry settings are in the registry as configured.That the driver is loaded by searching for it under HKLM\Drivers\Active.
System Information	That the driver is loaded.
Process Viewer	Can examine the processes running on a system.You can drill into the threads and modules loaded by a process with a view to determining under what process a driver (module) is loaded.
Kernel Tracker	Useful to examine threads, events, and other synchronization entities, deadlock, interrupts, and so on.
Performance Monitor	This facilitates looking at performance indicators. You can track such things as kernel time, user time, and memory usage as graphs and tables. Custom metrics can be implemented in code.
Profiler	This facilitates tracking the time function calls take and determines where most of the system time is consumed and can therefore locate bottlenecks.
Resource Leak Detector	Memory leaks.