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November 2008 - Posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:01 PM
WinHEC Presentations you might want to view
Since I was asked in response to my previous post "so what else is new in WDF?", how about this link to the presentation Eliyas and Peter made on exactly that topic at this year's WinHEC ? I suppose I could also flog this link to the presentation
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:22 PM
Queue Callbacks are NOT Dispatch Routines
One of our SDETs recently made an error in a Win7 WDK sample that prompted a discussion. After I explained the error, Wei gave me some feedback that my explanation made more sense than the WDK documentation did. So I'll try to elaborate a
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:41 PM
How Not to Write a Trip Report
This is lazy of me- but this is an edited (removed a few names and other details I shouldn't be including, and popped in a couple of hyperlinks, and corrected a few spelling and punctuation errors I noticed- I wrote this from a laptop, and they and I
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:18 AM
Adaptive Fault Injection
One of the topics I covered in Ilias ' and my joint presentation at WinHEC this year was new requirements coming for getting a WHQL signature for drivers using KMDF (UMDF as well, but this discussion doesn't currently apply to them). One part of
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:37 PM
Determining a KMDF driver's client version
This was probably the most fun I've had in a while. The initial versions of WdfVerifier simply collected the version information recorded by the KMDF coinstaller when it is used to install the framework for a driver. Unfortunately: not every driver needs
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:29 AM
Determining WDF runtime and client versions
What a long, strange trip, it was, getting to WinHEC! I waited for a shuttle to the airport at my apartment, and the rain [which was fairly heavy] turned into hail! But by the time we got near the airport, everything was dry. Well, LA is probably still
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:03 AM
A Suitable Day For Traveling
I got up this morning about 3:30 AM, and finished a little bit of packing, then headed for work. It was dark, chilly, and it was raining at a good pace- all of those typical of this time of year at that time of day, here in Redmond. My office
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