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Monday, August 03, 2009 7:31 AM

The Case of the Unexpected Overload

So are you using C++ in a KMDF driver and scratching your head over some unexpectedly unresolved references? I recently engaged in a somewhat prolonged conversation with Doron and a dev I won’t name [since I didn’t ask for permission] about C++ in KMDF

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Filed under: KMDF, customer service, PFD, C++

Monday, September 29, 2008 6:21 AM

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

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Filed under: KMDF, customer service, debugging, UMDF, WdfVerifier, test development, PFD, DSF, Driver Verifier, Life at Microsoft

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:23 PM

Looking Ahead- Conferences!

Since I noticed Patrick has spilled the beans [just before the second question], I might as well cover this topic while I wait for my dinner to bake [I eschew microwave ovens these days- just seems better to let it cook the old-fashioned- if early-to-mid-twentieth

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Filed under: KMDF, customer service, UMDF, WdfVerifier, lifestyle, test development, PFD, DSF, DTM, Driver Verifier, Life at Microsoft

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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Friday, September 28, 2007 4:54 PM

Serendipitous PreFast, or A Day in the Life

I noticed yesterday [Wednesday, 9/26] that my blog is listed on the WHDC page for WDF tools , and the same day a static analysis tool saved me hours of future work, so somehow from that came the thought of sketching a day in my life as an SDET, just to

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