Because the original dokan isn't maintained anymore, I have decided to fork it.
If you don't know about dokan, you should read this document first.

• Visual Studio 2013 solution file is provided with makefile and ddkbuild. Now you can compile filesystem driver very easily.
• All dokan library dll code has been recompiled in C++
• Using precompiled header for driver. It makes building driver much faster.
• Your usermode filesystem implementation should return their result code as NTSTATUS(Not the win32 status code). This gives your application more control.
• Use better logger.
• Applied PREfast analyzer(static analyzing driver source code)

• Download and install the WDK 7.1.0
• You should set the Windows environment variables DOKANX_PATH and WIN7BASE before compile driver.

# Note. Do not enclose WIN7BASE environment value in double quotes.  
# I guess ddkbuild can't recognize it.
DOKANX_PATH=YOURWORKSPACE\dokanx
WIN7BASE=C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1

• Choose build configuration debug_win7 or release_win7 regardless your actual target. The driver binary(.sys) will works on any targets.

• dokanx.dll
• dokanx.lib
• mirrorfs.exe
• dokanx_win7.sys
• dokanx_mount.exe
• dokanx_control.exe

WDK 8.x are not supported yet. But this doesn't mean dokan can't run on Windows 8 or later.

Before mounting a volume to filesystem, you need to register and start the filesystem driver.
This can be done with CreateService and StartService function. You could write your own code for registering/starting driver if you want. -maybe when your product is ready to deploy for end-user. At that time, this simple wrapper could be helpful to you.

But just for testing, you don't need to know the much things like that. There is a tool for you. You can easily registering and starting dokanx driver by osrloader.

• Move dokanx_win7.sys to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\dokanx.sys
• Set this path to osrloader's Driver Path and write dokanx to Display Name
• Click Register Service and Start Service

If there was no problem, you are ready to mount a volume.
Note that Stop Service function doesn't work. This maybe dokanx.sys's problem. It is very hard to write stopping device-driver code in Windows world. You need to reboot to stop the driver.

> dokanx_control.exe /i s
> mirrorfs.exe /l m /r c:\your_actual_folder

You can see M:\ drive has beed mounted on Windows Explorer.

1. Use FileTest. This is the best tool to check a single filesystem operation.
2. Use FileSystemTest. I made hundred of test cases for filesystem operations. If you run this program on your file system volume and NTFS volume, you can get input-output results for both file system and you can find what is wrong with your file system from diff those files.
3. Use ProcessMonitor. If you face to new problem, using ProcessMonitor is your best bet.