DDC starts in less than an hour
Plenty of good stuff for today- begin with Eliyas and Peter going over what's new in WDF for Windows 7 (or as we prefer to think of it WDF 1.9, since much of it also works all the back to Windows 2000 [KMDF] or Windows XP [UMDF]). It continues later with our first presentation of talks on the "shared secrets" of the Windows Driver Frameworks. The first talk discusses the implementation of the frameworks themselves, while the second presentation (my first of this conference, and my first in about 16 years) discusses how the frameworks are tested. The latter talk will also be one of the final talks of the day.
Tomorrow will include Neslihan's talk about getting a logo for your WDF driver (yes we are adding logo requirements specifically for WDF drivers- primarily for KMDF at the moment). It will include some excellent talks by Praveen Rao about work we have done on WDF drivers in the storage space, and again the final talk (at least in that room) is Ilias and I discussing the WDF coinstallers.
Wednesday we'll repeat all the talks I am in- the shared secrets talks will be back to back in the morning, but I won't catch part 1 that day because I'll be in another room with Ilias repeating the presentation on the coinstallers.
There's so much more, too- SDV, DSF, the innards of driver verifier, annotations for PFD and SDV, new test techniques from my colleagues James Moe and Dieter Achstettler, excellent talks on device installation, many driver technologies (several on printing, I can't help but notice). I could go on and on, except I've got some work to get to this morning [and I'll be leaving soon so I can register and begin my bit of supporting the conference].
Ask the experts session tomorrow night, bowling tonight, space set aside for us to talk with developers before and after talks, labs, panel discussions, Q & A with our most senior engineering staff, and a few surprises I'm not at liberty to mention even now.
My plan for now is to try to attend the whole thing- how well that works depends upon how things go in the lab [we've got some critical work going on, but let's see how the junior staff handles things for a bit], and whether I'm providing any benefit by being there [if I can be more effective working on test tasks in my office, I'll return to it]. Of course, assuming my laptop works there, I may just blog a bit more than usual. Not having a cell phone, it might be a bit hard for people to contact me if they need me back at the office [although they will know where I am, anyway].
So, I hope to see a few of my readers there (both those within Microsoft, and especially those from the outside). Hope all enjoy there time.
Now playing: The acid rock classic jam "Dark Star" from Live / Dead (of course by the Grateful Dead)
