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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:37 PM

New Blog: USB Core Team

The USB core team has started a new blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/usbcoreblog/ . They'll be discussing about everything that is related to USB. Welcome to the blogosphere USB Team :)
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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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Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:51 PM

WDF Logo Requirements Regarding Coinstallers

I've been asked many times, if a driver developer can avoid using WDF coinstallers. The answer is "yes, if the system already has the needed version of WDF installed (e.g. you want to install a WDF 1.5 driver in Vista RTM)". So, the next question that
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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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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:11 PM

Analyzing the Installation of WDF 1.7 and 1.9 drivers

Many months ago I had written a post analyzing the installation of WDF 1.5 drivers . Now that WDF 1.9 is almost out of the door, it's time to do the same thing for WDF 1.7 and 1.9. The differences in the coinstallers for these 2 versions are small, so
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:23 PM

How to install WDF drivers (Quick-Start)

This post is a small quick-start on how to install WDF drivers. Part 1: Installing a UMDF driver You can start with the echo sample, which is located at %WinDDK%\6001.18002\src\umdf\echo. First, you need to do a bcz in that directory. In your output directory
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:03 AM

The WDF team needs your help in ensuring compatibility

You might know that the Windows Driver Framework team is working on the next version of WDF, version 1.9, and planning to release it with Windows 7. Windows 7 will have this new version of framework built in. However, we will also provide a redistributable
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Friday, November 21, 2008 5:28 PM

WinHEC 2008 Presentations

As many of you know, WinHEC 2008 took place in Los Angeles, at the beginning of this month. I gave a presentation in the conference with Bob Kjelgaard about the WDF coinstallers and WDF logo requirements. This presentation includes a step-by-step walkthrough
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:28 PM

Where are the WDF 1.7 RTM coinstallers?

UPDATE (10/31/2008) : We just released the Windows Server 2008/SP1 WDK, which includes the coinstallers. This WDK is versioned as 6001.18002 and can be found here . Apart from the coinstallers, this WDK also has some additional changes, which are described
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:33 AM

A study guide for KMDF, UMDF, and Windows device driver concepts

One of the most common question that beginner driver developers ask is how they can start learning about driver development. Today, Eliyas, my manager, pointed out that we have already created a study guide that covers WDF and general Windows device driver
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:26 PM

Driver Developer Conference - DDC 2008

Next week (9/29 - 10/1) we'll have the Microsoft Windows Driver Developer Conference (DDC) in Redmond. We're expecting several driver developers. I'm excited about this, not only because it's the first time that I'll be participating in a Microsoft conference,
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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, May 16, 2008 8:06 PM

Code Quality: Windows vs Linux vs FreeBSD vs Solaris

Diomidis Spinellis has written a good paper for the “30 th International Conference on Software Engineering” (ICSE ’08) that looks at the code quality of the source codes of Windows (WRK – Research Kernel based on Windows Server 2003), Linux, Solaris
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:12 PM

When Is WDF 1.7 RTM Coming Out?

UPDATE 10/02/2008 : The WDF 1.7 RTM coinstallers were released on 4/18/2008. For more information on how to download them, please look at http://blogs.msdn.com/iliast/archive/2008/10/02/where-are-the-wdf-1-7-rtm-coinstallers.aspx Lately, I've been hearing
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