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Friday, May 09, 2008 5:41 PM

Why SDETS should be the most fastidious and paranoid coders in existence

Well, to follow up some more on my adventures in test code maintenance, I bring you a case study. As I whittled away at the 100+ PFD warnings I mentioned in my previous article , I did my paranoid best to look for dubious code above and beyond what PFD
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:00 AM

Reaping the Benefits of Static Analysis Tools

Our team has a huge amount of legacy test driver code, much of it rather old, and originally created by somewhat less experienced developers. I continually find myself going back and performing maintenance on that code, and as I've noted previously- Static
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:46 PM

Hardening takes time [unfortunately]

As time has gone on and I have worked with various KMDF users over the last few years, some of them have been helpful in forwarding information to me regarding installation failures even when they had successfully resolved them.  Nothing secret involved-
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:41 PM

It's soup!

You can now get the good WDF 1.7 coinstallers from Microsoft connect . What you will get is an MSI that will copy them and some accompanying notices to your machine. If you have the WS08 RTM WDK (18000) replace those coinstallers with these. If you have
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:04 AM

The light at the end of the WDF 1.7 tunnel

I know people want to know about this, but firm dates still prove elusive.  My best guess is today or tomorrow at this point. Basically we're trying to put an interim package up that satisfies everyone and isn't going to cause us foreseeable problems
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Friday, April 11, 2008 9:59 AM

Make that April 16th for WDF 1.7...

That seems to be the new consensus- only off by a day in that last post (which also has some background on why). Some "Thank You"s First off to Emil Protalinksi, for this article about our updated release date on Ars Technica . Not many people read my
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:15 AM

A New Target Date For WDF 1.7!

As noted in the previous post (among others) , I've not been saying anything about when WDF 1.7 will reappear for all those eager to begin using it, biding my time and waiting for a date that sounds achievable and has been given to a customer from our
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Friday, March 21, 2008 9:58 AM

So where is WDF 1.7?

Guess I'll take point on this one. I've been on vacation (or trying to) all week, but it's hard to miss all the frustration with this issue. Basically, after my previous post on this subject , (why does it always happen after I post?), I attended another
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:43 AM

Which update clobbered my KMDF 1.7 installation?

KB937381 is the identifier you'll see.  It is a prerequisite for an upgrade to Vista SP1, which is why we're spinning a new coinstaller out to you as fast as is practicable.  Please don't try to block it out- you'll almost certainly want SP1
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:48 AM

The Good, The Bad and The Rest of Us...

Well, the recent problem with KMDF 1.7 failing to install on Vista RTM was instructive for me on many fronts, so I thought I'd share various random thoughts that arose from the experience. It's good to have backup.  As I mentioned on my personal
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:56 PM

Why doesn't my KMDF 1.7 Driver Install on Windows Vista?

Well, the root to this current problem lies in the story behind my last post .  If I had waited a few hours, Windows Update would have deployed a required SP1 prerequisites package, and the driver I had successfully installed would have ceased working. 
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:02 AM

Fire drill!

Our coinstallers are incredibly complex, as you may have been getting an inkling of if you've been following this subject (that probably means I'm talking to myself again, but I'll post anyway). Now in theory the way a piece of software goes out of here
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Monday, February 11, 2008 1:13 PM

Mystery caller unmasked

Well, I found out who left me the startling message about a KMDF 1.7 installation failure on Brazilian Windows 2000 on my instant messaging.  It was impish Ilias , who noticed the web interface for Messenger and wanted to see if it worked. 
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Friday, February 08, 2008 6:36 AM

How Things Really Work- Minding One's P's and Q's

Well, as I listen to the closing strains of Estimated Prophet [7/4 reggae, smoothly executed] followed by a rousing New Minglewood Blues (but my day began with Yoko Kanno's Adieu , just to show I retain some balance), I've decided to post some thoughts
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:49 PM

Worse than Phone Tag

Well, I put the Windows Live Messenger control up on my blog months ago. Today someone apparently used it- first time ever to the best of my knowledge. Of course, I was at a meeting (status should have shown as "Away"- it does when I test it, anyway).
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