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Hey guys,

So I am working on Vista deployments and Deployment 4 (also BDD 2007) and they do not handle the driver imports very well.

Here are here the current issues I am attempting to resolve:

  • Duplicate files/folders are present in the "Out of Box Drivers" folder -Completed
  • Duplicate entries are present in the "drivers.xml" file -Completed
  • There is no way to easily manage the drivers and add them to drivergroups
I have successfully resolved the first two issues already (will post code soon, need to clean it up and make it pretty :) ), but I am running into a bit of trouble on the last one (mostly looking for ideas on how to deal with all this data, keep reading..).

Drivergroups work like this:

  • The GUID of the driver (taken from the drivers.xml file) is placed in DriverGroups.xml file under the respective driver group, right below the <Name>...</Name> tags
  • The GUID is placed within <Driver>....</Driver> tags *See the Drivergroups.xml sample
So for those of us who have not messed with Deployment 4 or the similiar BDD 2007 I will attempt to explain what I am trying to accomplish.

  • Read the Drivergroups.xml and Drivers.xml files
  • Use the Name, Manufacturer, Version, Type and Platform data from each driver in Drivers.xml
  • Figure out how many Drivergroups there are
  • Present the drivers in a way that is easy to manipulate (I am envisioning have a list view and being able to right click multi selected items to groups and having the colors change accordingly.)
  • Once the drivers are selected and added to a drivergroup, all the drivers' GUID's are added to their respective driver groups
Keep in mind that there could be hundreds possibly a thousand or so drivers to possibly sort through. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to effeciently manipulate this data? I am currently looking at using a Listview and enabling the right click to add the drivers to the groups.

Here is a sample of the Drivers.xml:

CODE
<drivers>

<driver guid="{302cf53a-719d-4849-a4b3-0fc1751057c6}" enable="True">

<Name>NVIDIA Display nvdm.inf 7.15.10.9746</Name>

<Manufacturer>NVIDIA</Manufacturer>

<Version>7.15.10.9746</Version>

<Source>.\Out-of-box Drivers\Display\nvd 7.15.10.9746\nvdm.inf</Source>

<Type>Display</Type>

<Platform>x86</Platform>

<OSVersion>6.0</OSVersion>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00C8&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00C9&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00CC&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0098&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0099&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0297&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0298&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0299&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029A&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029B&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029D&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_01C21028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_20031028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D8&SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D8&SUBSYS_01D71028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01DC&SUBSYS_01C81028</PNPId>

</driver>

<driver guid="{8e05109c-bf13-40fb-b653-da98547e5e30}" enable="True">

<Name>NVIDIA Display nvdm.inf 7.15.10.9746</Name>

<Manufacturer>NVIDIA</Manufacturer>

<Version>7.15.10.9746</Version>

<Source>.\Out-of-box Drivers\Display\nvd 7.15.10.9746 (1)\nvdm.inf</Source>

<Type>Display</Type>

<Platform>x86</Platform>

<OSVersion>6.0</OSVersion>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00C8&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00C9&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00CC&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0098&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0099&SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0297&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0298&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0299&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029A&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029B&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029D&SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_01C21028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D7&SUBSYS_20031028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D8&SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01D8&SUBSYS_01D71028</PNPId>

<PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_01DC&SUBSYS_01C81028</PNPId>

</driver>

</drivers>

Here is a sample of the DriverGroups.xml:

CODE
<drivergroups>

<drivergroup guid="{23377cce-aea6-4cc9-acd8-cfc6ad6d3e09}">

<Name>All Drivers</Name>

</drivergroup>

<drivergroup guid="{a87db1a3-6d07-47c7-a9b3-c480a35df4c7}">

<Name>Test</Name>

<Driver>{c489e7fe-0ac4-4a63-ab36-2eeb575589f4}</Driver>

</drivergroup>

<drivergroup guid="{d0f9b120-db45-4a6e-a8fe-8afd0aaae2a9}">

<Name>Test1</Name>

<Driver>{c489e7fe-0ac4-4a63-ab36-2eeb575589f4}</Driver>

</drivergroup>

<drivergroup guid="{1f5b9951-7b7d-4d07-b85d-a7e9bf35e0a3}">

<Name>Test3</Name>

<Driver>{1f5b9951-7b7d-4d07-b85d-a7e9bf35e0a3}</Driver>

<Driver>{c489e7fe-0ac4-4a63-ab36-2eeb575589f4}</Driver>

</drivergroup>

</drivergroups>

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Sounds like a job for eltorro's _XML_DOMWrapper.au3 UDF.

:)

Edit: Sorry, that doesn't really address your question about getting it into a GUI efficiently.

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As a first step, if this is read as a real xml file and not just parsed as text, your DriverGroups.xml file loads as valid XML, but Drivers.xml does not. The ampersands "&" in the PNPId fields must be escaped.

<drivers>
    <driver guid="{302cf53a-719d-4849-a4b3-0fc1751057c6}" enable="True">
        <Name>NVIDIA Display nvdm.inf 7.15.10.9746</Name>
        <Manufacturer>NVIDIA</Manufacturer>
        <Version>7.15.10.9746</Version>
        <Source>.\Out-of-box Drivers\Display\nvd 7.15.10.9746\nvdm.inf</Source>
        <Type>Display</Type>
        <Platform>x86</Platform>
        <OSVersion>6.0</OSVersion>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00C8&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00C9&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00CC&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0098&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0099&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0297&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0298&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0299&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029A&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029B&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029D&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_01C21028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_20031028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D8&amp;SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D8&amp;SUBSYS_01D71028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01DC&amp;SUBSYS_01C81028</PNPId>
    </driver>
    <driver guid="{8e05109c-bf13-40fb-b653-da98547e5e30}" enable="True">
        <Name>NVIDIA Display nvdm.inf 7.15.10.9746</Name>
        <Manufacturer>NVIDIA</Manufacturer>
        <Version>7.15.10.9746</Version>
        <Source>.\Out-of-box Drivers\Display\nvd 7.15.10.9746 (1)\nvdm.inf</Source>
        <Type>Display</Type>
        <Platform>x86</Platform>
        <OSVersion>6.0</OSVersion>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00C8&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00C9&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_00CC&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0098&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0099&amp;SUBSYS_019C1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0297&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0298&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_0299&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029A&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029B&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_029D&amp;SUBSYS_019B1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_01C21028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D7&amp;SUBSYS_20031028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D8&amp;SUBSYS_01CC1028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01D8&amp;SUBSYS_01D71028</PNPId>
        <PNPId>PCI\VEN_10DE&amp;DEV_01DC&amp;SUBSYS_01C81028</PNPId>
    </driver>
</drivers>

This will read it:

#include <_XMLDOMWrapper.au3>
#include <array.au3>

$sDrvXml = "C:\Temp\Drivers.xml" 
$oDrvXml = _XMLFileOpen ($sDrvXml)
If Not IsObj($oDrvXml) Then 
    ConsoleWrite("Debug: Error opening file: $oDrvXml = " & $oDrvXml & @LF)
    Exit
EndIf

$avFields = _XMLGetValue("/drivers/driver/PNPId")
_ArrayDisplay($avFields, "Debug: $avFields")

$oDrvXml = ""

:)

Edit: Added example with entity references, and sample code to read them.

Edited by PsaltyDS
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Thanks PsaltyDS!! This helps immensely when pulling specifics from the xml's. You rock! AutoIT roxors! ;):)

Now I can easily get arrays with the values I am looking for. It should be easier from this point on, wish me luck.

Edit: Question: How would I pull the Driver GUID (it doesn't appear to follow the convention for the others)?

<driver guid="{302cf53a-719d-4849-a4b3-0fc1751057c6}" enable="True">
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Thanks PsaltyDS!! This helps immensely when pulling specifics from the xml's. You rock! AutoIT roxors! ;):)

Now I can easily get arrays with the values I am looking for. It should be easier from this point on, wish me luck.

Edit: Question: How would I pull the Driver GUID (it doesn't appear to follow the convention for the others)?

<driver guid="{302cf53a-719d-4849-a4b3-0fc1751057c6}" enable="True">
The way those are listed inside driver node's tag means they are 'Attributes'. Look at _XMLGetAttrib() in the _XMLDOMWrapper.au3 UDF.

:P

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So I tried this and it doesn't return an array, it only returns one value if I use a msgbox.

$avFields = _XMLGetAttrib ("//drivers/*", "guid")

Edit:

Found this code and it seems to work:

Func Main()
    Local $szXPath, $aNodeName, $find, $ns, $oXSD,$iNodeCount,$aAttrName[1],$aAttrVal[1],$ret_val
    $xmlFile = "C:\Documents and Settings\jmascote\My Documents\!!AUTOIT Scripts\BDD2007\Drivers.xml"
    $ns = ""
    $oXSD = _XMLFileOpen ($xmlFile, $ns)
    If @error Or $oXSD < 1 Then
        MsgBox(0, "Error", "There was an error opening the file " & $xmlFile)
        $oXSD = 0
        Exit
    EndIf
    $szXPath = "//drivers"
    $iNodeCount = _XMLGetNodeCount($szXPath & "/*")
    MsgBox(0,"Node Count",$iNodeCount)

    $aNodeName = _XMLGetChildNodes ($szXPath); get a list of node names under this path
    If $aNodeName <> - 1 Then
        For $find = 1 To $aNodeName[0]
            ConsoleWrite($aNodeName[$find]& '[' & $find & ']'&@LF)
          ;It's better to use node index instead of node name as all node here have same name.
          _XMLGetAllAttrib($szXPath & "/*" & '[' & $find & ']',$aAttrName,$aAttrVal)
            _ArrayDisplay($aAttrName,$szXPath & "/*" & '[' & $find & ']')
            _ArrayDisplay($aAttrVal,$szXPath & "/*" & '[' & $find & ']')
            

        Next
        MsgBox(266288,"_XMLWrapper","Done")
    Else
        MsgBox(0, "Error:", "No nodes found for " & $szXPath)
    EndIf
    $oXSD = 0
EndFunc;==>Main
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