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So, some of you may recognize Eliyas’ name from WinHECs and various other driver dev presentations, but guess what he’s done now?! He’s become a blogger. Go on feel free to hound him about your USB driver problems. :)
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Welcome to the blog-o-sphere Neslihan . She’s our resident WLK guru, so you guys and gals can go pester here with all your WDF logo questions. :)
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I got an interesting question via mail recently, “Do I really need to create a queue object in my UMDF driver?” Well, this is another one of those, “only if” type questions. For instance - Only if your driver is not handling any I/O from a top edge method
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The subject of how to talk to another device stack has come up again, and since I only briefly touched on it a year ago , I thought it would be good provide some code snippets and a little more background on how to accomplish such a feat. The gist of
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One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while is put Isochronous transfer support back in to the 1394 Hybrid sample. Now that Windows 7 has shipped and we’re picking up projects we want to do during this period of product transitions, I felt the
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Two things are celebrating 40th anniversaries this year. One is me (okay it’s not until October) and the more significant thing is Apollo 11 landing on the moon. :) Like any of you really needed to be reminded. Still to this day, my favorite
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The fourth part of Abhishek’s online UMDF debugging tutorials is up now. :) http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/umdftraining.mspx Next up, those of you playing with Windows 7 may have noticed that the “Found New Hardware” wizard is gone!
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Like all good stories, sometimes the 2nd act is the hardest to follow. In this case it was simply a matter of other things coming up rather than writers block. :) What kicked me in the rump to get this next part up was a few more questions about driver
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Our wondrous Abhishek did a series of Debugging UMDF driver talks and I’m happy to say we now have the first three live on line! In these he covers some of the basics; where to find and how to use WDFVerifier, how to use some of the UMDF Debugger extensions
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In my previous post about Filter Drivers , I mentioned that this time I would focus on a more UMDF centric stack. This one is pretty simple. For UMDF only based driver stacks, the single most important directive is the UmdfServiceOrder INF directvie.
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Oracle Buys Sun - Gearlog I’m not sure how to feel about this. I know it probably went under a lot of people’s radar, but it almost feels like the passing of a rival. Something you wished would happen earlier, but not something you really wanted to happen
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Filter drivers have come up in conversations recently (both internal and external), so I wanted to take some time here to address some of the issues that were brought up with regards to UMDF filter drivers and how to make them. Note: I’m not going to
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But this is too Astro-cool. :) Kepler spacecraft open for business: Scientific American Blog
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Yes, I'm alive, and in perfect hibernation, well not even in the same time zone as hibernation, but you get the joke hopefully. :) I just had to share this little ditty with you all because it's very cool. Microsoft, NASA put universe back on the
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Yes, I know that's a rip off of a ThinkGeek shirt (which I own). Well, this is going to be my second post on this topic (okay, third ), but as it managed to rear its head again recently, what better time to blog. And I'm going to also blog it simply
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