Starting with Windows Driver Kit 8.1 Update, the tools necessary to build Windows drivers are once again available to the community at no cost. Yay!!!
Names Are Important
Most of the engineers I work with know that I’m obsessed with names. Not names of people, mind you. Strangely, I can barely remember those, which can be pretty darn embarrassing as a consultant and instructor. No, the names I’m obsessed with are the names of software things: local variables, structure fields, and names of […]
Test Signing Made Simple
Like so many things to do with writing drivers for Windows, test signing drivers used to suck. A lot. But with the advent of the Win8 WDK, not only is it not so bad… it’s pretty easy. When you build your driver and Driver Package in the Win8 WDK, by default it signs your driver and package […]