A little Windows console program for testing joysticks , game controllers, and similar devices
As a Linux user I appreciate the convenience of the jstest utility, which allows you to see the raw numerical outputs of the control axes on a joystick, game controller, or similar input device. Unable to find anything similar for Windows, I created this little Visual Studio C++ console application. It reports the manufactuer and product id of the first such device detected, as well as the axis values and button state, extracted from the JOYCAPS data structure.
To run WinJSTest you'll need Visual Studio (I'm using Visual Studio Community 2017). Double-clicking on WinJSTest.sln should launch Visual Studio, after which you can hit the F5 key to build and run the program.