My travels with WDF

So as I was crafting some UMDF HID driver code for your consumption, and I was working with one of you (and you know who you are *g*) during some of that time frame, we sort of discovered everything already exists between my earlier blog posts and some...

If you’re watching what’s going on at //BUILD (and why wouldn’t you be?), you may have seen that UMDF now supports hardware access (via ports and registers) and interrupt handling! If you haven’t seen it, you can go read more here...

Most of you at the DDC will notice that I'm not at the DDC. I'm guessing that makes me one of the "juniors" that Bob was referring to. ;) 4.) How do you build debugging techniques into your driver? Ie, DbgBreakPoint, ASSERT, etc - which is best in...

Peter's a topic stealing stealer person. So rather than pout about how he's stolen my thunder, I'll just add some lightning for effect. I'm a fan of the closing paren' being on the line with the last value. Not on its own line. I mean what does this really...

Was pondering a few questions the last few days. How many of you UMDF writers use ATL in your drivers? If you do, do you have more of a kernel driver background or a user mode background? Since UMDF works on an object model very similar to COM, the ATL...

  Sharing a cross post that is of interest to you WDF users; http://blogs.msdn.com/b/doronh/archive/2010/08/25/developing-drivers-with-the-windows-174-driver-foundation-i-e-the-wdf-book-is-apparently-out-of-print.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

A follow up question was posed from my last post about the WDF book no longer being in print and I thought it would be better to do a post so it will show up in RSS feeds; Q : Any idea what triggered this? I realize that our technology area doesn't sell...

I got a few interesting questions recently, which was helpful because I was having a tough time finding good material for you guys and gals of late. That's the problem with working on the next Operating System, I can't tell you about all the cool stuff...

I hope those of you who are using the new Visual Studio 2011 with the WDK integration are having some fun, even if it’s just been wandering around and playing.  What, if anything, are you not liking about it?  Anything that’s unintuitive or...

  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...

A laurel and hearty hello to all of you (2 points if you get the reference). Before I start on the meat of the post, I want to cover something that came up in conversation recently in regards to creating hybrid driver stacks using UMDF; Your kernel...

So I thought I'd give you all an end to end sample of how to forward requests to a lower driver w/ UMDF, or at least how I have it set up for the 1394 virtual device driver sample. Your usage may vary and so may your mileage. First off, UMDF uses file...

Another topic of discussion floating around regarding the WDF Hybrid 1394 Virtual Device Driver sample has been what changes were made to the test executable, WIN1394.exe. Well first thing, I changed the name for the EXE included with my sample. There...

Unlike Doron , I've been using Visual Studio exclusively since I first started working here (many, many years ago...), I've experienced the bumps, bangs and sometimes dead thuds along the way, but I've never used anything else for my code creation. I...

Another 'ha-ha' moment for you live by; I've been testing the hybrid driver as individual elements, just to get some error path coverage because I'm weird like that. That means I was installing the KMDF driver on its own and running unit tests against...

This one is more of a "ramble" though. I, like a lot of MSFTies, like to read and participate in computing forums across this world wide web thingamajig. Recently in one of my forum haunts a question was posted, "How do I learn how to write drivers...

Holy jumpin'! Some of you might be thinking, "Another blog post this month?" Yessir, I've got another one, and yes, it's another rambler. See I was pondering last night while watching The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang on my DVR and much like last week...

First thing is first, NHL '08 is miserable on Superstar mode. You actually have to play hockey defense. Not just jump up and slam somebody in to the boards. And whatever you do, don't make any mistakes passing in your defensive zone. 99.99999999% of them...

Apparently Bungie released a game this week. This caused something of a massive line to form around the company store on Tuesday. And in a first for the physical company store, they opened the store at 7am to help handle the load. That means they shot...

I'm on a bit of a homonymic kick lately, if you haven't been able to tell, but the blogpics (that's a blog topic btw. As I'm also on a Dr. Seuss kick lately, expect some more made up words) lend themselves to these sorts of things. A few posts ago...

A scant 7 days (and 8ish hours) from now I will hopefully be tripping the fiber light fantastic. I've been dying to get my hands on FiOS for a long while. More so after my wife had her business cable line installed at the house (she's a virtual worker...

All forces occur in pairs, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction . This is Newton's third law of motion. This is Patrick's first law of programming. The thing I've been bitten with more than any in my "life" at...

Recursion and I do not get a long well. There are a lot of little reasons, but it is mostly because Recursion is much older than me and because of that difference in ages, we don't have much in common. Like I hate referring to myself to answer a question...

If you have seen the mail announcing the release of the WDK RC1, I will remind you that the hybrid sample driver is there. If you haven't seen it (or don't get the mails), hey you guys the WDK RC1 is released and you can get it through your connect.microsoft...

As promised here is the correction to the hybrid INF file you'll need to make. [SourceDisksFiles] kmdf1394vdev.sys=1 umdf1394vdev.dll=1 WudfUpdate_01007.dll=1 WdfCoInstaller01005.dll=1 WdfCoInstaller01007.dll=1 .... [CoInstaller_CopyFiles] wdfcoinstaller01007...