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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:41 AM
New WDF debugging videos on WHDC
Several for KMDF here , and several more for UMDF here . Thus endeth today’s PR blitzen. Have fun!
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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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Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:30 PM
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,
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:58 PM
So Nice I Tried it Twice
Yeah, the disco daze wuz good uns... As long as I'm on the "Papa B Dumb" kick, I'll add a most embarrassing errata for WdfVerifier- this will be there in the official 6001 WDK, much to my eternal shame... With all the things to test on
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:00 AM
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
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Friday, August 10, 2007 10:39 AM
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...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:48 AM
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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