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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:09 AM

WDK Docs Updated for March and April 2008

The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) documentation set on the Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) and the Windows Hardware Developer Central ( WHDC ) Web sites has been updated for March and April 2008. The WDK documentation team has updated the documentation
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Friday, April 18, 2008 6:26 PM

How to Sign File System Drivers for Release

Kernel-mode driver binaries for 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista must be signed for release, or Windows will not load the binary. This requirement applies to file system drivers, including minifilters, legacy filters, and redirectors.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:27 PM

Resources to help you annotate code for static analysis

What are annotations? } Essentially comments in the code that can be understood by static analysis tools (PREfast for Drivers, /analyze option in Visual Studio) Why are annotations needed? } Because they find bugs! } Annotations describe the contract
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:57 PM

Additional "Roadmap" prototype topic for the Windows Driver Kit for your review

Here is an additional roadmap prototype topic for Windows Driver Model (WDM) audio drivers, written by Eric Bortei-Doku of the WDK writing team. Please review this prototype topic for accuracy, completeness, and general usefulness to new driver developers
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Friday, April 04, 2008 5:37 PM

New "Roadmap" prototype topic for the Windows Driver Kit for your review

To help new driver developers and experienced driver developers who are new to a specific type of driver, the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) writing team is investigating the use of a new topic type that lists the basic set of steps in the end-to-end driver
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