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Driver Development

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

Developing Drivers with the Windows® Driver Foundation, i.e. the WDF book, is apparently out of print
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:31:56 GMT

Arbitration and Translation, Part 3
Fri, 07 May 2010 00:14:56 GMT

Translation and Windows
Thu, 06 May 2010 22:12:00 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

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

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye...
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:10:19 GMT

New Blog: USB Core Team
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT

KMDF Debugging Videos
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:29:00 GMT

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

Heads up!
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:14:05 GMT

Time keeps on slippin’
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:15:48 GMT

A funny thing happened on the way to the keyboard
Fri, 28 May 2010 19:04:19 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

How to recover from USB errors? (Part 1)
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:15:00 GMT

USB Driver Documentation Updates in the MSDN Library
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:30:00 GMT

Multi-config USB devices and Windows
Wed, 19 May 2010 00:27:00 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

How to Find the WDK Documentation You’re Looking For
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:43:00 GMT

WDK Documentation Republished on MSDN
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:27:00 GMT

Goodbye Doc Explorer
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:04:00 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

Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:22:00 GMT

NUMA Node Balancing
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:00 GMT

File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:06:00 GMT


Platform Design

VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals Also chirping at: http://twitter.com/volkerw

Want to become an Evangelist at Microsoft?
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:09:00 GMT

TechEd Berlin Coming in November
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:14:39 GMT

Future Proof Your IT Skills
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:29:32 GMT

Windows Server Division WebLog
Focusing on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V, Storage Server, High Performance Computing, and Small Business Server

SP1: the Bite-Sized Versions
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:33:31 GMT

Linux Integration Services version 2.1 goes RTM
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:43 GMT

Direct Edge stock exchange launches on Windows Server, SQL Server
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:40:48 GMT

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

Items of interest from VMworld 2010
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:34:08 GMT

Why Does Microsoft exhibit at VMworld?
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:23:34 GMT

Go vote
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:39:18 GMT


Windows Internals and Troubleshooting

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

The Compound Case of the Outlook Hangs
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:00:00 GMT

The Case of the Random IE Crash
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:37:00 GMT

The Case of the Printing Failure
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:18:27 GMT


Windows Portable Devices

Windows Portable Devices Team Blog

Sensors and Windows
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:00 GMT

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


Windows Sensor and Location Platform

Sensor & Location Platform Team Blog

Using an Accelerometer to Build a Game Controller
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Making Sense of Sensor Permissions
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Understanding Access Denied when working with ISensor::GetState() and ISensor::GetProperty()
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 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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