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Specifying Client Information

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The client information supplied in the second argument is used by some device drivers to optimize device performance. At a minimum, your application should provide a string containing its name, a major version number, a minor version number, and a revision number. These are the fields supplied by the sample application.

#define CLIENT_NAME         L"WPD Sample Application"
#define CLIENT_MAJOR_VER    1
#define CLIENT_MINOR_VER    0
#define CLIENT_REVISION     2

The GetClientInformation function in the sample application creates and populates an IPortableDeviceValues interface with client information. This function has two primary parts. The first part creates an instance of a portable device-values object by calling the CoCreateInstance function.

HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_PortableDeviceValues,
                              NULL,
                              CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
                              IID_PPV_ARGS(ppClientInformation));

The second part sets the client information in the portable device-values object.

if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
    // Attempt to set all bits of client information
    hr = (*ppClientInformation)->SetStringValue(WPD_CLIENT_NAME, CLIENT_NAME);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("! Failed to set WPD_CLIENT_NAME, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
    }

    hr = (*ppClientInformation)->SetUnsignedIntegerValue(WPD_CLIENT_MAJOR_VERSION, CLIENT_MAJOR_VER);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("! Failed to set WPD_CLIENT_MAJOR_VERSION, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
    }

    hr = (*ppClientInformation)->SetUnsignedIntegerValue(WPD_CLIENT_MINOR_VERSION, CLIENT_MINOR_VER);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("! Failed to set WPD_CLIENT_MINOR_VERSION, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
    }

    hr = (*ppClientInformation)->SetUnsignedIntegerValue(WPD_CLIENT_REVISION, CLIENT_REVISION);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("! Failed to set WPD_CLIENT_REVISION, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
    }

    //  Some device drivers need to impersonate the caller in order to function correctly.  Since our application does not
    //  need to restrict its identity, specify SECURITY_IMPERSONATION so that we work with all devices.
    hr = (*ppClientInformation)->SetUnsignedIntegerValue(WPD_CLIENT_SECURITY_QUALITY_OF_SERVICE, SECURITY_IMPERSONATION);
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("! Failed to set WPD_CLIENT_SECURITY_QUALITY_OF_SERVICE, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
    }
}
else
{
    printf("! Failed to CoCreateInstance CLSID_PortableDeviceValues, hr = 0x%lx\n",hr);
}

IPortableDevice Interface

IPortableDeviceValues Interface

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