Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Documentation Blog

One of the leading causes of crashes for Microsoft Windows can be traced to device drivers that do not handle cancel requests properly, or at all. Cancellation is one of the most difficult concepts in driver technology to get right, and this blog entry...

Hi, I’m Seth McEvoy and I’m the writer for the Kernel-Mode Driver Architecture section of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). My section is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973498.aspx . I’ve only been writing on the kernel for about a year,...

The Windows Driver Kit for Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 introduces a new way to declare your event callback functions for KMDF drivers and dispatch routines for WDM drivers. This new type of declaration uses function...

An error has been identified in the WDK topic, “ Synchronizing Cancellation of Sent Requests ”, and is being corrected. This topic, which is part of the documentation for Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF), incorrectly indicates that a driver and...

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) documentation set on the Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) and the Windows Hardware Developer Central ( WHDC ) Web sites has been updated for May 2008. The WDK documentation team has updated the documentation to address...