OSR Developer's Blog

Welcome to the OSR Developer's technical blog. We've relocated the blog here from our OSR Online site to make room for renovations of that site.

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NTFS Status Debugging

17 October 2018

by SNoone

As a file system filter developer, one of the great pains in life is when a file system operation fails deep in the bowels of the file system. For example, Read more

Check out the new Virtual Hardware Lab Kit (VHLK)

15 October 2018

by SNoone

A big complaint I’ve always had about the HLKs is the overhead of getting a system provisioned as the HLK controller. This is made even worse now by the blistering Read more

It’s 1809… A New WDK Awaits You… Don’t Be Afraid!

4 October 2018

by PeterGV

Well, OK… It’s not really 1809 anymore. It’s actually 1810 when I’m writing this. But whatever. There’s a new WDK among us. Before you can install WDK 1809, you’ll need Read more

We’re ready… well, at least we think we’re ready. Are YOU? New web site: community.osr.com Questions/Comments/Issues: CommunityMove@osr.com To summarize key points about the move: The move is scheduled to take Read more

OSR Community Move: 19 September 2018

5 September 2018

by PeterGV

We have finally fixed on a date when the NTDEV, NTFSD, and WINDBG community site will move: Wednesday, 19 September 2018. Two weeks from now. That’s the TARGET date. Assuming Read more

It’s Baaack: Just My Code, Part II, Breaks Driver Debug Builds (with ANOTHER Workaround)

30 August 2018

by PeterGV

It’s been two whole weeks since a bug in Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit has caused all forward progress on a project to stop. So, it must be Read more

New VS15.8 Feature Breaks WDK 1803 (with Workaround)

16 August 2018

by PeterGV

Continual Updates: Love Them or Hate Them? Either Way, Peter Rants It is difficult for me to convey how very much I *dislike* having both my tools and my operating Read more

Live Streaming Our MiniFilters Seminar

13 August 2018

by PeterGV

We’ve been talking about it a lot, so you’ve probably heard already: Next week (20 August) will be our first public offering of our new Developing Filter Manager Minifilters seminar here at Read more

The Latest on the Move — Who Gets All Email

1 August 2018

by PeterGV

Even though my last post was only four days ago, a lot has been going in with the move. So, I thought I’d fill you in. Keeping The Archives Our Read more

Moving NTDEV, NTFSD and WINDBG — What’s Next

28 July 2018

by PeterGV

Community Members: This is the first in a short series of preparatory articles about moving OSR’s peer support forums, NTDEV, NTFSD, and WINDBG from their long-time home to a new Read more