WppViewer Studio Guides

Practical WPP and ETW tracing notes for Windows driver developers.

These guides support WppViewer Studio, the Windows trace viewer built for the work driver developers actually do: open ETL files, start live WPP sessions, capture DbgPrint output, filter noisy logs, jump from an event to source, and inspect call stacks. If you are evaluating the product, start with the WppViewer Studio page; use the articles below for specific workflows and comparison details.

The Product

• WppViewer Studio

  The full product page: features, screenshots, demo-vs-licensed comparison, and licensing.

• WppViewer vs WDK TraceView

  How WppViewer compares to Microsoft's built-in WDK TraceView, feature by feature.

• When to replace WDK TraceView

  When driver teams replace WDK TraceView with WppViewer Studio.

Guides & Troubleshooting

• How to open an ETL file

  Open and read a saved .etl trace with formatted WPP messages.

• Generate TMF files from PDBs

  Use WDK tools to create WPP TMF files and configure the TMF search path.

• Get a call stack for an ETW event

  Capture and resolve call stacks for ETW and DbgPrint events.

• WPP traces not showing?

  Why a session captures nothing or shows unformatted messages, and how to fix it.

• ETW messages with stack (sample)

  Walk through the EtwMessagesWithStack sample library with WppViewer.

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