Hardware and Driver Developer Blogs

Driver Development

A Hole In My Head
Doron Holan's musings on drivers and other nibbles and bits

•	WDFREQUESTs are for sharing in KMDF v1.9 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:48:14 GMT
•	WDFREQUESTs are not for sharing Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:58:00 GMT
•	Great WinHEC presentation on device interfaces compared to device clases Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:03:00 GMT

It Goes To Eleven
Jonathan Morrison's Blog on the Windows Kernel, Windows Kernel Debugging and Other Random Stuff

•	Preventing Race Conditions in Code That Accesses Global Data Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:28:00 GMT
•	Runtime Code Patching - Not for the Faint of Heart Wed, 14 May 2008 21:37:00 GMT
•	Getting the Crashing Stack From a Bugcheck Wed, 07 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Static Driver Tools

•	PFD/SDV Clean - SDV Roletypes in Samples and Shipping Drivers Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:27:00 GMT
•	Example of how the Annotations in WDM.H and OACR catch a bug on the developer desktop (PFD/SDV "Clean" 2 of 6) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:27:00 GMT
•	PFD and SDV Clean: Improving the Quality of Headers and Samples in the WDK and Windows 7 (Part 1 of 6) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:14:00 GMT

Pointless Blathering
Peter Wieland's thoughts on Windows driver development, and occasional rants about computing in general.

•	New KMDF white-paper out on writing a bus driver Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:48:59 GMT
•	Pedantic Coder: Hungarian Notation Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT
•	I've been style sheet hacking again Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:08:00 GMT

Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind
Bob Kjelgaard writes about WDF, Testing, QA, and (occasionally) life at Microsoft

•	New WDF debugging videos on WHDC Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:41:32 GMT
•	Time Doth Flee Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:12:00 GMT
•	Yet another WDF Blogger Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:44:03 GMT

driver writing != bus driving
Ilias Tsigkogiannis' Introduction to Windows Device Drivers

•	New Blog: USB Core Team Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT
•	KMDF Debugging Videos Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:29:00 GMT
•	WDF Logo Requirements Regarding Coinstallers Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:51:00 GMT

My travels with WDF
The continuing story of a boy, his dog and their discovery of the world outside...of WDM.

•	We’re gonna need a bigger stick! Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:42:17 GMT
•	We’ve got more bloggers than we can shake a stick at! Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:18:50 GMT
•	I/O Queues and You Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:48:00 GMT

Craig Rowland - Developing, Testing and Getting a Logo for Your Drivers

•	Direct Link to WLK Support Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:23:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 = Done Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:33:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 is Almost Ready Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:14:33 GMT

Device Connectivity

USB Core Team Blog

•	List of the latest USB hotfixes for each Windows version Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:00 GMT
•	Why is my USB device not detected or comes up as "Unknown Device"? Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT
•	How does USB stack enumerate a device? Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:19:00 GMT

Networking

Windows Core Networking
Windows Core Networking APIs and technologies such as Winsock, TCP/IP stack, WFP, IPsec, IPv6, WSK, WinINet, Http.sys, WinHttp, QoS, and System.Net

•	Final version of Windows Web Services API for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 is now available! Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:32:00 GMT
•	Why didn’t my cached content revalidate to the web server? (IE8 edition) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:33:50 GMT
•	HTTP Connection Management Fri, 08 May 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Security

Michael Howard's Web Log
A Simple Software Security Guy at Microsoft!

•	Security Sessions at TechEd in Australia and New Zealand Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:20:00 GMT
•	ATL, MS09-035 and the SDL Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:43:00 GMT
•	Integrating the SDL process into Visual Studio Tue, 19 May 2009 19:53:27 GMT

WDK and WLK Documentation

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Documentation Blog

•	September Documentation Update Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:41:00 GMT
•	The File System Filter Test Suite Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:11:00 GMT
•	Changes to XPS Rasterization Filter Sample for Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Client Update Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:43:00 GMT

Display and Graphics

XPS Team Blog - XML Paper Specification and the Open Packaging Conventions

•	Printing and Document Features for the Platform Update for Windows Vista Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:16:00 GMT
•	New Office 2010 Printing Functionality Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:24:15 GMT
•	Hello Ecma-388 1st Edition Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:59:00 GMT

Performance

Windows Server Performance Team Blog
Windows Server Operating System Performance information, tools and discussion

•	File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:06:00 GMT
•	High Speed Networking Deployment Guide Released Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:51:00 GMT
•	Interpreting CPU Utilization for Performance Analysis Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:00 GMT

Platform Design

VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals

Also chirping at: http://twitter.com/volkerw

•	Unix to Windows API dictionary Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:06:20 GMT
•	New Training on the Channel9 Learning Center Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:53:06 GMT
•	New Courses on the Channel9 Learning Center Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:09:43 GMT

Windows Server Division WebLog
Focusing on Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, Storage Server, High Performance Computing, Essential Business Server ,and Small Business Server

•	Thoughts on the Professional Developers Conference Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:29 GMT
•	Haiku for Fun and Prizes Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:39:00 GMT
•	PDC 2009 – Windows Server and Windows Azure Platform Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

•	LiveMeeting on Microsoft’s Integrated Virtualization Strategy: Thursday, Nov. 19, 8:00 AM PST Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:44:48 GMT
•	Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 beta 2 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:20:00 GMT
•	Re-blog: Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:27:00 GMT

Windows Internals and Troubleshooting

Mark's Blog
Mark Russinovich's technical blog covering topics such as Windows troubleshooting, technologies and security.

•	The Machine SID Duplication Myth Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT
•	Channel 9: Inside Windows 7 Redux Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT
•	Recent and Upcoming Speaking Engagements Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Windows Portable Devices

Windows Portable Devices Team Blog

•	Windows 7 Device Implementation Guidelines for Picture and Video Import Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:51:42 GMT
•	WPD Platform Update for Windows Vista Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:04:58 GMT
•	The MTP Device Simulator Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:52:25 GMT

Windows Sideshow

Windows SideShow Team Blog

•	Logitech G19 and G15 keyboards support Windows SideShow! Fri, 15 May 2009 00:59:00 GMT
•	How to Make Sure Your Windows Mobile Device Stays Connected With Windows 7 RC Tue, 05 May 2009 19:50:00 GMT
•	New SideShow-compatible devices from Mini-Box! Mon, 04 May 2009 20:53:00 GMT

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