User Mode API

Note: The user-mode API must be deployed to end-user systems together with the kernel-mode drivers; the version of the kernel-mode drivers on the end-user systems must be equal or newer to the version of the user-mode APIs. Thus, when the user-mode API is installed or updated on end-user systems, it is required to ensure that the kernel-mode drivers already present in the system are updated to match the version of the installed user-mode API.

The user mode API comes in two forms:

• As DLLs with import libraries, named cbfsfilter20.dll and cbfsfilter20.lib, respectively.
• As static libraries, which don't require a dynamic library, named cbfsfilter20s.lib.

The libraries are available for 32-bit (x86 and ARM) and 64-bit (x64 and ARM64) processor architectures.

Use the DLL with the import library if incompatibilities occur between the compilation and linkage options set in your project and the options with which the library was compiled.

When linking the static library, no extra user mode API files need to be deployed with the application. When using the DLL, deploy the .dll file to the target system and place it next to the application's .exe file.

Note: When linking the static library, the Windows library version.lib must be included in the linker options.

Remember to deploy the drivers too, as they are an integral part of CBFS Filter.