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This came up as a question on NTDEV today. After I thought about it for a bit I realized it was actually a pretty good question. You've started writing your driver, or at least thinking about your driver. You know you'll get some data back from the device
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To quote from Rev. Lovejoy : Shoo, short answer: "Yes" with an "If", long answer "No" - with a "But. There are two types of driver signing, which complicates the answer. As usual any answers I provide are probably vague and can be overridden by standard
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UMDF's content in the WDK contains a handful of examples for controlling a USB device. Unfortunately they only show how to do it on Vista. The problem was that WinUSB's co-installer wasn't added to the WDK until very late - too late for us to be able
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UMDF defines all of its interfaces using COM interfaces, rather than the flat C-style DDI that the KMDF team used. When kernel developers see this their first question is often "why did you do that?" and it's an understandable question. I had a long discussion
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I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write about this. The last week or two have been pretty hectic as we try to lockdown for Vista. But we still want people to download the UMDF 1.0 beta, and here are the instructions for that. The first step,
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YIPPY!!! Sometimes it seems like releasing software is more complicated than developing it. We really wanted to have this at WinHEC, but that just wasn't going to happen. Fortunately I have an amazing team to help push through all the problems and process
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I got back from vacation today and went to connect.microsoft.com to see if the WDK beta was up yet, and i'm happy to say that it is. It's a fairly large (2.3 GB) ISO image to download and i'm pulling it down now to make sure it works okay. Here are the
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I finished my talk on UMDF at WinHEC yesterday. It seems to have gone reasonably well, so I'm relieved about that. The bad news is that we couldn't make our beta support for XP available due to some internal logistical problems, but it's still on the
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