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New WDF debugging videos on WHDC

Several for KMDF here , and several more for UMDF here . Thus endeth today’s PR blitzen.  Have fun!

Exceptions rule!

I’ve decided to revert to storytelling mode today.  So sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of my fateful trip (or click something useful- you’re the one deciding, and I’m the one typing to satisfy whatever inner demon has driven me to do

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

Resources For Investigating and Fixing Windows Driver Framework Installation Issues

Currently there is some more information I need to accumulate here: Summary of services for each framework Other registry settings needed for a healthy installation Other registry settings that are typically created by our packages (NOT all possible keys,

Papa's "Wall of Dumb"

If memory serves correctly, always an iffy thing with us old fogies, Chloe Sullivan (on "Smallville") maintained a "Wall of Weird" covering all the strange events in her benighted hometown. So Papa's decided to inaugurate his "Wall

Root Causing a Not Reproducible KMDF Installation Issue- part 3: Pay Dirt!

I'll begin by recapping where we've been. In part 1 , an interesting installation issue was reported- interesting in that it was 100% reproducible on customer machines scattered about Europe, but not all such machines, and neither we nor the IHV who reported

Root causing a not reproducible KMDF installation issue- part 2: Not stupid, merely human

In the last installment, we had a workaround, so people could get on with their lives. BUT , there's still that problem of an access violation of unknown origin that happens every time we try to install KMDF 1.1 on a machine a continent or two away...

Root causing a not reproducible KMDF installation issue- part 1: Looking for trouble, finding it, and working around it

Working in the Windows Driver Frameworks QA department has its challenges. One of them for me has been that occasionally there is a paucity of the interesting problems that make for an intense workday. Since those are the days you write code or blog,
 
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