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 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:48:14 GMT
•	WDFREQUESTs are not for sharing Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:58:00 GMT
•	Great WinHEC presentation on device interfaces compared to device clases Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:03:00 GMT

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

•	Runtime Code Patching - Not for the Faint of Heart Wed, 14 May 2008 18:37:00 GMT
•	Getting the Crashing Stack From a Bugcheck Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT
•	It Goes to Eleven and ... to the NT Insider! Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:00 GMT

Static Driver Tools

•	PFD/SDV Clean - SDV Roletypes in Samples and Shipping Drivers Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:27:00 GMT
•	Example of how the Annotations in WDM.H and OACR catch a bug on the developer desktop (PFD/SDV "Clean" 2 of 6) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:27:00 GMT
•	PFD and SDV Clean: Improving the Quality of Headers and Samples in the WDK and Windows 7 (Part 1 of 6) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:14:00 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 17:48:59 GMT
•	Pedantic Coder: Hungarian Notation Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT
•	I've been style sheet hacking again Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:08:00 GMT

Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind
Bob Kjelgaard's description of life as an SDET in the Windows Driver Frameworks

•	He’s Gone Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:15:16 GMT
•	Crazy is as crazy does Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:57:00 GMT
•	Not all of them Thu, 07 May 2009 17:44:33 GMT

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

•	UMDF Debugging Videos Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:29:00 GMT
•	Viewing WDF Logs In Windbg Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:44:00 GMT
•	Analyzing the Installation of WDF 1.7 and 1.9 drivers Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:11:00 GMT

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

•	House cleaning Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:13:49 GMT
•	Intellisense, the Musical part 3 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:47:00 GMT
•	UMDF Debugging talks online Wed, 06 May 2009 20:01:38 GMT

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

•	Direct Link to WLK Support Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:23:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 = Done Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:33:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 is Almost Ready Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:14:33 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

•	Why didn’t my cached content revalidate to the web server? (IE8 edition) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:33:50 GMT
•	HTTP Connection Management Fri, 08 May 2009 16:29:00 GMT
•	QoS Traffic Generator Example Usage Thu, 07 May 2009 23:47:52 GMT

Security

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

•	Integrating the SDL process into Visual Studio Tue, 19 May 2009 16:53:27 GMT
•	A Conversation About Threat Modeling Fri, 01 May 2009 14:29:00 GMT
•	Ken Johnson (Skywing) joins Microsoft Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:27:00 GMT

WDK and WLK Documentation

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Documentation Blog

•	New for Windows 7: Mobile Broadband Miniport Driver Documentation Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:38:00 GMT
•	WDK to Continue Posting Documentation in CHM Format Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:22:00 GMT
•	Update to Windows 7 RC Version of the XPS Rasterization Filter Service Sample Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:00:00 GMT

Display and Graphics

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

•	Announcing the Windows HD Imaging AQ Fri, 01 May 2009 20:01:00 GMT
•	Get started with XPS APIs for document workflows Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:35 GMT
•	Thanks for joining us at AIIM! Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:11:14 GMT

Performance

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

•	Configuring Windows Server 2008 Power Parameters for Increased Power Efficiency Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:10:00 GMT
•	Greater than 64 Logical Processor support on Windows Server 2008 R2 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:19:00 GMT
•	Hyper-V and VHD Performance - Dynamic vs. Fixed Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Platform Design

VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals

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

•	TechNet Edge Content in local languages – Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:09:27 GMT
•	Superfast and highly scalable Lizard Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:10:49 GMT
•	New IIS SEO Toolkit beta available for download Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:47:06 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

•	NuStar Energy: IT for growth Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:39:00 GMT
•	Guest Blog: How Information Technology (IT) Can Still Invest in Innovation Today Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:30:00 GMT
•	What is the state of IT? Find out tomorrow with Microsoft’s Bob Kelly Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

•	Windows Server 2008 R2 Core: Introducing SCONFIG. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:27:00 GMT
•	Beware The VMware Core Tax & More Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:18:00 GMT
•	System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Quick Storage Migration Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Windows Internals and Troubleshooting

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

•	Pushing the Limits of Windows: Process and Threads Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:21:00 GMT
•	Windows Internals 5th Edition is Available! Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT
•	The Case of the Slow Keynote Demo Tue, 26 May 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Windows Sideshow

Windows SideShow Team Blog

•	Logitech G19 and G15 keyboards support Windows SideShow! Thu, 14 May 2009 21:59:00 GMT
•	How to Make Sure Your Windows Mobile Device Stays Connected With Windows 7 RC Tue, 05 May 2009 16:50:00 GMT
•	New SideShow-compatible devices from Mini-Box! Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:00 GMT

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