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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:29 PM

KMDF Debugging Videos

A while ago, I wrote a blog post about our UMDF debugging videos , which were created by my teammate Abhishek. Now, I'm really excited to announce that we've released KMDF debugging videos, which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/kmdf.mspx
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:29 PM

UMDF Debugging Videos

UPDATE: You can find my post about KMDF debugging videos at http://blogs.msdn.com/iliast/archive/2009/09/22/kmdf-debugging-videos.aspx A while back I had written that we didn't have any videos, where we talk about UMDF (KMDF seems to get all the glory
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:44 PM

Viewing WDF Logs In Windbg

One feature that is really helpful in debugging WDF drivers is the log file that is created by the frameworks themselves. In the log files you can see many warnings and errors that are created by the framework (i.e. they come for free and the driver does
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Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:33 PM

Channel9 Video on Debugging BSODs

I found a very interesting channel9 video on how to debug BSODs (Blue Screens of Death): http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Daniel-Pearson-Debugging-a-Windows-Blue-Screen-of-Death/ Daniel Pearson explains why blue screens happen in Windows, how a user
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Friday, February 01, 2008 12:13 PM

Debugging User-Mode Processes Using a Kernel-Mode Debugger

In this post I'll try to clarify some small details, that are related to debugging a user-mode process (focusing on a UMDF driver) using a kernel-mode debugger. So, the setup is that we have a test computer, where the UMDF echo driver is running and another
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:44 PM

Developing Windows Drivers With Visual Studio

Today morning I received an email from Patrick with a picture of Visual Studio with Intellisense on a WDF driver . Ok, I have to admit that in the beginning I thought that Patrick was using Photoshop! He's a guy, who just doesn't like GUIs in the first
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:59 PM

How Driver Installation Works

The last few months I've been working on the WDF 1.7 (UMDF+KMDF) coinstallers (that's one of the reasons that I've been silent for quite some time). Through this process I managed to learn a lot of things about how driver installation works and what is
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:13 PM

Tips On How To Analyze Strange Crash Dumps And Uninstall Hidden Drivers

Recently, a friend of mine had the following problem: his computer crashed exactly 2 hours after booting into windows. As usual, I opened windbg and executed !analyze -v in the minidumps, however I didn't get any useful information: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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Monday, December 11, 2006 6:43 PM

Crash Dump Analysis

I'm sure that many of you have had the unfortunate experience of watching the windows Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) while working, and possibly have lost important data. A common reaction in this case is to blame Microsoft and continue working after the
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:27 PM

Windbg Tutorials

The debugger is always a very helpful tool for a developer. In this post I'll present windbg. This tool works both as a user-mode debugger (in order to debug user applications) and as a kernel-mode debugger (in order to debug windows drivers). It's not
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