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Debugging User-Mode Driver Framework Drivers: Debugging Techniques

The presenter of this webcast describes techniques for debugging commonly encountered User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF problems. The presenter also covers techniques for proactively identifying bugs in UMDF drivers during development and testing. The goal of this webcast is to educate the viewer about tools used to debug UMDF drivers. and...

Tags: Technique, Webcast, Driver, UMDF, Productivity

Webcasts 2009-05-13

Debugging User-Mode Driver Framework Drivers: Introduction

This webcast introduces basic concepts and terminology related to User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF drivers. The goal of this webcast is to educate the attendee about tools used to debug UMDF drivers, techniques for debugging UMDF drivers, UMDF debugger extensions and common UMDF debugging scenarios.

Tags: Webcast, Driver, UMDF, Productivity

Webcasts 2009-05-01

Debugging User-Mode Driver Framework Drivers: Debugger Extensions

The presenter of this webcast describes the debugger extensions that are specific to the User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF and how to use them to debug UMDF drivers. The presenter also describes some UMDF concepts and which debugger extensions to use in order to debug specific problems. The goal of this...

Tags: Webcast, Driver, Debugger Extension, UMDF, Productivity

Webcasts 2009-05-01

Introduction to the WDF User-Mode Driver Framework

The Windows Driver Foundation WDF is Microsoft's next-generation driver model. WDF includes frameworks to support both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers, along with driver testing and verification tools. The User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF component of WDF enables drivers for some types of devices to run in user mode instead of kernel...

Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Windows Driver Foundation, UMDF, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2005-06-02

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Debugging User-Mode Driver Framework Drivers: Debugging Basics

The presenter of this webcast describes the tools for debugging User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF drivers and where to get these tools. The presenter also describes how to connect a debugger to the process that hosts the UMDF driver. The goal of this webcast is to educate the attendee about tools...

Tags: Driver, Tool, Productivity

Webcasts 2009-05-01

I/O Flow and Dispatching in WDF Drivers

I/O processing is the heart of any driver. To understand how to implement robust I/O handling code in the driver, one must understand how I/O requests flow from an application to the driver, how the Windows Driver Foundation WDF simplifies the driver's I/O processing tasks, and what the driver should...

Tags: I/O

White papers 2007-04-10

Plug and Play and Power Management in WDF Drivers

The Windows Driver Foundation WDF implements a fully integrated model for Plug and Play and power management in both the User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF and the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework KMDF. The model provides intelligent defaults so that some drivers do not require any code to support simple Plug and Play...

Tags: Power Management, Windows Driver Foundation

White papers 2007-04-09

Writing USB Drivers With WDF

A primary design goal for WDF was to make the driver models easy to extend to support new types of hardware. The first hardware-specific specialized I/O targets in both UMDF and KMDF support USB devices. One can use the USB I/O targets to write a fully functional Windows driver for...

Tags: USB Driver, USB

White papers 2007-04-09

Architecture of the User-Mode Driver Framework

The Microsoft Windows Driver Foundation WDF includes frameworks to support the development of both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers. The User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF enables drivers for some types of devices to run in user mode instead of kernel mode. This paper describes the architecture of the user-mode driver framework and...

Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Framework, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-02-21

An Introduction to COM for UMDF Developers

This paper provides a basic introduction to COM programming as it is used by User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF that is part of the Windows Driver Foundation WDF. The paper is especially intended for kernel-mode driver developers with little or no COM experience, but any developer who is getting started with...

Tags: Developer, COM, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-10-03

Sample Drivers for the User-Mode Driver Framework

This paper provides information about the sample drivers that are supplied with the User-Mode Driver Framework UMDF, which is a component of the Windows Driver Foundation WDF for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It steps through the Skeleton sample driver and explains the structure of a UMDF driver....

Tags: Driver, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-05-16