Drivers

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Michael Fourre, senior test engineer from the Driver Verifier team, pays a visit to Larry Larsen and Chad Beeder in the Channel 9 studios to give us some deeper insight into this valuable tool for catching device driver bugs! Resources:…

In this week's episode of Defrag Tools, Graham McIntyre, Senior Developer from the Windows Reliability team, gives us an overview of Online Crash Analysis (OCA). Graham describes OCA and how dump collection has been enhanced in Windows 8. Resources:Debugging Tools for…

In this followup to last week's episode of Defrag Tools, Michael Fourre, senior test engineer from the Driver Verifier team, gives us an overview of all the available verifier settings, and explains when you might need to use them. Resources: Debugging Tools for Windows…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the…

Here's another installment from MSR Cambridge (much more to come). This time, I was lucky enough to get some time with Byron Cook, a researcher in MSR's Programming Principles and Tools group focusing on static analysis of system code to hunt for algorithms and code fragments that…

From the kernel to the shell, Windows Vista is a very different OS than XPSP2. How so? Here, Charles interviews Architect Narayanan Ganapathy whose team of highly skilled engineers write the Windows IO system, driver frameworks and related technologies. So, what, exactly, is new in Windows…

The upcoming release of Windows CE 6.0 ships with a redesigned kernel, memory model and device driver architecture, Juggs Ravalia is a Program Manager on the Windows CE drivers team who gives us the low down on the new driver architecture and what that means for embedded device developers. Mike…

Donn Terry is a Software Developer who's been writing driver code for Windows for a very long time... He's the guy who's been working on PreFAST for drivers (PFD) for the past several years. PFD is a really handy static analysis tool used by driver developers to find bugs in their code that…

PrintVerifier is a powerful tool that can be used for development and testing of print drivers and print applications. This is a screencast of a demo of the PrintVerifier tool that is to be presented at WinHEC 2007. For more information on PrintVerifier, visit…

The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new for Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment and provide location base services and application. But sensors are external or logical devices that require a driver to connect to Windows 7.…