Notes from Windows Development Teams

This collection of notes, tips, implementation guidelines, chalk-talks and lectures by people from the Windows Division at Microsoft includes extracts from presentations made at various public and private events for driver developers.

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Audio Device Driver Notes

HD Audio UAA Class Driver 1.1 Overview

Color Management Notes

Windows Color System and API: An Overview [1.2 MB]

Debugging Notes

	Advanced Driver Debugging [336 KB]
	Advanced Driver Debugging: Part 1
	Advanced Driver Debugging: Part 2
	Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis with Mark Russinovich

Network Driver Notes

Network Driver Performance [250 KB]

Plug and Play and Power Management Notes

How Windows Plug and Play Works: Going Deep on Channel 9

Printing Architecture and Driver Notes

	Core Printer Driver Improvements [482 KB]
	Debugging Print And Imaging Drivers [152 KB]
	Details On the Longhorn Spool File Format [528 KB]
	Filter-based Print Drivers: Overview [330 KB]
	Metro Technical Overview [696 KB]
	PrintTicket and PrintCapabilities: Overview of Communications Schema and API [346 KB]
	Testing and Tools For Print and Imaging Drivers [306 KB]
	Video - Jerry Dunietz on the XML Paper Specification (XPS)

Storage Device Driver Notes

	AHCI: ATAport Miniport Example [243 KB]
	How to Add WMI Interfaces to SCSIPort and Storport Miniports [170 KB]
	How to Write an ATAport Miniport [289 KB]

Tools for Testing and Tuning Notes

	How To Use Event Tracing For Windows For Performance Analysis [226 KB]
	Static Analysis and Verification of Drivers [2.4 MB]
	How to Use Event Tracing for Windows for Performance Analysis

USB Driver Notes

Simplified USB Function Drivers [2005; 284 KB]

UWB Notes

UltraWide Band (UWB) Architecture Preview [802 KB]

Windows Driver Foundation Notes

	How to Develop a KMDF Driver [517 KB]
	How to Develop a UMDF Driver [1.4 MB]
	How to Port WDM Drivers to KMDF [749 KB]
	Introduction to User-Mode Driver Framework [536 KB]
	How to Develop a KMDF Driver: Part 2
	How to Port a WDM Driver to the KMDF: Part 1
	How to Port a WDM Driver to the KMDF: Part 2

Windows Driver Kit Notes

	WDK Build Environment Refactoring [488 KB]
	WDK Driver Test Manager [1.0 MB]

Windows Memory Management

	Advances in Memory Management for Windows
	Memory Management: What Every Driver Writer Needs to Know
	The Memory Manager in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista
	Memory Management (MSDN)

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