The week the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities was one of the most fun weeks I’ve had in a while. Not only were the vulnerabilities mind-bendingly clever, that week had just Read more
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DecI love Source Code Annotation Language, I really do. I’ve already blogged about how great it is in my previous post, SAL Annotations, Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful. I Read more
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May
There are a couple of feature of C/C++ in Visual Studio 2015 that are easy to overlook, but that I'm really looking forward to using. Two of those features that I'm most eagerly anticipating are support for binary literals and digit separators. Together, these promise to make life easier for Windows driver developers. Read more
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MarNew Tools Introduced at WinHEC 2015
by SNoone
Across various presentations at WinHEC, several new tools have been introduced for use by Windows driver writers. There’s no real overarching theme to these tools, they touch different parts of Read more
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MarWindows Source Code on GitHub!
by SNoone
[WDF Source Available: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-Driver-Frameworks] OK, well, maybe that title was a bit misleading. But, it’s not entirely untrue: portions of the Kernel and User Mode Driver Frameworks are going to be available Read more
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JanWhy should Windows driver writers care about Connected Standby, and what do they need to know about it? That’s what we’ll tell you in this blog post. What’s happens when Read more
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Oct
Device Name Spaces are an often overlooked, but potentially useful, feature in Windows device driver design and development. This article (with accompanying video) describes how Device Name Spaces can be useful and how to implement them when you write a WDF driver. Read more
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AugWith its unique C++ syntax and its “charming” COM programming pattern, UMDF has largely been ignored by the Windows driver development community. But the arrival of UMDF V2 could change Read more
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AugEvery time I teach a class — every single time — I learn something. Sometimes I learn that I’m not nearly as patient as I wish I was. But two Read more
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JunThere’s an old saying that if you ask two developers a question you’ll get three answers. We decided to test that theory by posing a simple challenge: explain WDF Queues Read more
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