I deleted it all at the start of February 2010. AFAICT, the world operates as smoothly as it ever did, so as far as I'm concerned, no harm done. I originally intended never to post here again. As you may have noticed, I changed my mind about that. I'm...

Well, now that the Windows 8 cat is mostly out of the bag, I shall start talking about a recent project of mine that interests me and might be interesting to others. Several of the changes or new features in WDF, most notably the ability of UMDF drivers...

Well, today, as I babysit a new simulator I'm integrating into one of my older WDF test suites, I'll tell you about how I put together what I refer to as my "simulation infrastructure". First choice to make- where does the simulation happen? I don...

Something going on worldwide happened to me early in the morning on October 16th, 2012. My home computer, running Windows 7, rebooted after receiving an update via Windows Update. After rebooting, it was using KMDF 1.11, and UMDF 1.11 (the versions that...

I've been through a few things since I last tried doing any regular blogging on MSDN. I'll share a few that are OK for me to share. Facebook- engrossing, wonderful, a great way to connect with family and friends- also home to a great many games. I...

I should finish up at least an overview of what I built for a hardware simulation infrastructure during Win8, so here goes... A root- and what a root it is At the core of everything, and essential to it all- is my "QA root bus" driver. It acts as...

The span of time between the time when a version of Windows is "finished" and when the next version's planning and execution effort is both precious and fleeting. It's often the time when I do all those projects I've been wanting to do but couldn't justify...

This week has been a bit of fun for me. After the USB simulation infrastructure I started to write about in my last post - and never got close to finishing the description of, I began working on my dream test setup, for use in some work I knew was coming...