Hardware and Driver Developer Blogs

Driver Development

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

•	What should you change in a sample before you ship it? Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:19 GMT
•	The WDF 1.7 cointstallers are now available Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:20:00 GMT
•	Debugger commands (.step_filter) that make my life easier Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:02:19 GMT

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

•	Code Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:33:03 GMT
•	Pedantic Coder : Where do braces go? Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:25:15 GMT
•	So many ways to send SCSI requests to a driver Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:26:59 GMT

Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind
The life of an SDET in the Windows Driver Frameworks

•	Why SDETS should be the most fastidious and paranoid coders in existence Sat, 10 May 2008 00:41:00 GMT
•	Reaping the Benefits of Static Analysis Tools Wed, 07 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT
•	Hardening takes time [unfortunately] Sun, 04 May 2008 20:46:31 GMT

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

•	When Is WDF 1.7 RTM Coming Out? Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:12:00 GMT
•	Why Do We Need WDF Coinstallers? Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:27:00 GMT
•	Debugging User-Mode Processes Using a Kernel-Mode Debugger Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:13:00 GMT

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

•	I would have waited forever, and ever, and ever, and ever... Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:53 GMT
•	snark, snark! Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:45:00 GMT
•	You can have a co-driver, a co-pilot and now, a co-installer Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:47:00 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

•	WinHTTP Questions: About Callbacks Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:01:00 GMT
•	WinHTTP Questions - async close on a sync request Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:30:00 GMT
•	Ready for Windows Server 2008? Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:48:46 GMT

Security

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

•	Giving SQL Injection the Respect it Deserves Fri, 16 May 2008 20:49:00 GMT
•	Crispin has a blog! Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:08:00 GMT
•	Oh No! Security Metrics! Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:33:00 GMT

WDK and WLK Documentation

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Documentation Blog

•	Readme Files for WDK Sample Drivers Now Published on MSDN Thu, 08 May 2008 20:02:00 GMT
•	Quick Translation / 快速翻译 / Traducción rápida / 速い翻訳 / ترجمة سريع Tue, 06 May 2008 15:48:00 GMT
•	WDK Docs Updated for March and April 2008 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:09:00 GMT

Display and Graphics

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

•	XPS Sample Documents Library 1.0 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:15:00 GMT
•	Ecma forms technical committee for XPS Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:16:00 GMT
•	XPS Essentials Pack for 23 additional languages Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:56:00 GMT

Platform Design

VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals

•	GE Range Thu, 08 May 2008 22:21:39 GMT
•	A new HPC Blog Mon, 05 May 2008 16:42:07 GMT
•	Virtual HPC Cluster Deployment on Hyper-V Fri, 02 May 2008 18:34:46 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

•	Windows Server 2008 in Action - HostMySite.com Wed, 14 May 2008 17:23:00 GMT
•	Windows Essential Server Solutions go public Tue, 13 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT
•	Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 Available Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:53:00 GMT

Windows Virtualization Team Blog
The Microsoft Windows Virtualization Product Group Team Blog

•	Unattended Installation of Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V RC0 Thu, 08 May 2008 05:40:15 GMT
•	Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 3 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:14:57 GMT
•	Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 2 Sat, 03 May 2008 04:37:00 GMT

Windows Internals and Troubleshooting

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

•	Guest Post: The Case of the FrontPage Error Tue, 13 May 2008 23:52:00 GMT
•	The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:28:00 GMT
•	Inside Vista SP1 File Copy Improvements Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:47:00 GMT

Windows Sideshow

Windows SideShow Team Blog

•	Pre-order Ricavision's VAVE100 at Amazon.com Thu, 08 May 2008 17:26:00 GMT
•	Beta test the Ricavision VAVE100 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:32:00 GMT
•	Don't read English? No problem! Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:32:00 GMT

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