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Attention Silicon Valley - WDF/WDF/Kernel Debugging Seminars Coming to Santa Clara   Last Updated: 11-Jan-10   (Read 386 times)

Latest OSR Seminar Schedule   Last Updated: 17-Sep-09   (Read 5965 times)

Driver Jobs: 19 Jobs Available For Driver Writers   Last Updated: 08-Feb-10

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Win7 Mysteries: Crash Dump Oddities   Last Updated: 09-Dec-09   (Read 585 times)
The "newness" of Win7 will likely continue for some time, as will instances of kernel devs finding interesting "features" that will require re-learning of how their daily work is carried out. This article covers some changes in how Win7 systems take crash dumps.
KMDF Basics: Using Counted Queues   Last Updated: 09-Dec-09
Improvements to the Kernel Mode Driver Framework continue to provide us with new ways to make our life easier.
Writing a Virtual Storport Miniport Driver (Part II)   Last Updated: 08-Dec-09   (Read 455 times)
Part II of our series on the design and development of a Windows virtual storport miniport driver moves us into data structures and routines required for our implementation.
The Community Steps Up: VisualDDK   Last Updated: 11-Dec-09   (Read 760 times)
Folks have been talking about finding ways to take advantage of the Visual Studio interface for driver development and debugging for years. Finally, someone in the community has stepped up to offer an alternative.
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More on MDLs - MDLs Are Opaque   Last Updated: 17-Apr-06   (Read 13259 times)
If MDLs are opaque, what's the right way to gain access to their contents?  This article, a follow-on to our article on MDLs, discusses the various methods that are provided for access to the fields in the MDL object.
Bugchecks Explained: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR   Last Updated: 24-Aug-04   (Read 64259 times)
Did your system ever die with KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR?  Here's what it means.
Bugchecks Explained: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA   Last Updated: 24-Aug-04   (Read 197576 times)
Ever wonder what causes the particularly illogical sounding bugcheck PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA?  Here are the details, including how to debug the problem and what you might need to look at in your driver to fix it.
Bugchecks Explained: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT   Last Updated: 24-Aug-04   (Read 240640 times)
Ever wonder what causes the bugcheck PFN_LIST_CORRUPT?  Here are the details.
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Windows Streams - An Introduction to File System Streams   Last Updated: 17-Apr-06   (Read 27771 times)
Are you fuzzy on the NTFS concept of "streams" in files?  This article explains streams and how they're used.
Security During Create Operations   Last Updated: 26-Aug-04   (Read 16811 times)
This article describes how Windows file systems that support security go about assigning a new security descriptor during the processing of IRP_MJ_CREATE.  This article is not intended to be a comprehensive description of all the steps, but rather a basic review of how a file system handles it.
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Sample WDF Driver for Sealevel Digital I/O Kit   Last Updated: 16-Mar-06   (Downloaded 9017 times)
Here's the latest update to the sample KMDF driver for the Sealevel Digital I/O Kit. It supports the most recent release of the SeaLevel DIO-24 board (the 8018). Have fun!
Sample Driver for USB FX2 Learning Kit   Last Updated: 11-Mar-05   (Downloaded 19034 times)
Here's where to download the sample driver for your new OSR USB FX2 Learning Kit. This WDM driver will demonstrate all features of the board, as well as proper USB driver development practices.
OsrVirtualCdAndDisk   Last Updated: 11-Aug-05   (Downloaded 701 times)
The OSR Virtual CD and Disk driver allows a user to mount .ISO,.IMG images as CD-ROMs and allows the user to create and mount .DSK files that act as Disk Drives.  In addition true disk image file format (.bin) has been added
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Windows Driver Developer Community
What's going on in the community? Check out what people are talking about on the NTDEV and NTFSD discussion lists below. You can participate via email, new reader, or the web. Ask a question, answer a question, or watch the discussion had by others. What are you waiting for... Click here to join the community now!

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msr: Calling IOCallDriver from NDIS Protocol Driver (8 msgs, last updated 1:33 ago)
Gary Little: ZwOpenFile (13 msgs, last updated 2:27 ago)
Chris Schade: Best practices, tips (5 msgs, last updated 4:15 ago)
Robert Bielik: USB cross-interference (4 msgs, last updated 6:40 ago)
Vishal Sharma: list of functions exported by devmgr.dll (3 msgs)
Yariv Barkan: Fakemodem sample does not work under Windows 7 (1 msg)
 
egcp: Volume Parameter Block (VPB) question (11 msgs, last updated 2:39 ago)
George Bittencourt: NTFS Cluster Size (2 msgs, last updated 3:04 ago)
Harvey War: Disallowing FastIO for every IRP_MJ_NETWORK_QUERY_OPEN (6 msgs, last updated 3:06 ago)
Harvey War: Question about driver file operations (3 msgs, last updated 3:06 ago)
Steve Otteson: Where to cache state information for IRP_MJ_DIRECTORY_CONTROL (2 msgs)
Oliver Civic: Simple MiniFilter driver logging filesystem events (4 msgs)
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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:37:04
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