Drivers

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…

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson, Woldwide Marketing Director, spend some time with Inside Out talking about their lessons learned as…

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…

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…

Installing drivers is sometimes difficult to understand process for users, but getting drivers on to a machine is not as easy as you think, from a developer point of view. In fact, installation is often quite a hard problem for driver developers to get right...Well, Erik Gubitz, SDE, and…

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…

Seriously cool! Recently, I read about the new Xerox Mobile Express Driver that lets you automatically detect all the available printers in your vicinity - even the ones that are non-Xerox - and then downloads and installs the appropriate drivers automatically. Keep in mind that this software won’t…