As a file system filter developer, one of the great pains in life is when a file system operation fails deep in the bowels of the file system. For example, say I’m trying to rename a file with FltSetInformationFile for FileRenameInformation and I get back STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. How do I track that down? Sure, I could try […]
Check out the new Virtual Hardware Lab Kit (VHLK)
A big complaint I’ve always had about the HLKs is the overhead of getting a system provisioned as the HLK controller. This is made even worse now by the blistering speed with which Windows feature updates are coming, thus requiring the installation of yet another HLK controller for compliance testing every few months. I was […]
It’s 1809… A New WDK Awaits You… Don’t Be Afraid!
Well, OK… It’s not really 1809 anymore. It’s actually 1810 when I’m writing this. But whatever. There’s a new WDK among us. Before you can install WDK 1809, you’ll need to be running Visual Studio 15.8 and you’ll need to manually install the latest SDK (the version is Windows 10.0.17763.1, which is the 1809 SDK). […]
Ready for the Community Move?
We’re ready… well, at least we think we’re ready. Are YOU? New web site: community.osr.com Questions/Comments/Issues: CommunityMove@osr.com To summarize key points about the move: The move is scheduled to take place on 19 September 2018. You can visit the new site today to see how it looks, but you will not be able to login […]
OSR Community Move: 19 September 2018
We have finally fixed on a date when the NTDEV, NTFSD, and WINDBG community site will move: Wednesday, 19 September 2018. Two weeks from now. That’s the TARGET date. Assuming things go well. We *have* managed to come to an agreement with our hosting provider for hosting the entire archive of the three lists. So […]
It’s Baaack: Just My Code, Part II, Breaks Driver Debug Builds (with ANOTHER Workaround)
It’s been two whole weeks since a bug in Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit has caused all forward progress on a project to stop. So, it must be time for another bug. Remember this error from VS 15.8: When you try to build a driver with the new “Just My Code” debugging feature […]
New VS15.8 Feature Breaks WDK 1803 (with Workaround)
Continual Updates: Love Them or Hate Them? Either Way, Peter Rants It is difficult for me to convey how very much I *dislike* having both my tools and my operating system continually updated. It’s not that I don’t like new features. Heck, I’m positively a whore for new features: Whoooaaa! You can do @ mentions […]
Live Streaming Our MiniFilters Seminar
We’ve been talking about it a lot, so you’ve probably heard already: Next week (20 August) will be our first public offering of our new Developing Filter Manager Minifilters seminar here at the OSR Seminar Space. There’s still a couple of seats available, if you want to join us. If you can’t come, we understand. To make […]
The Latest on the Move — Who Gets All Email
Even though my last post was only four days ago, a lot has been going in with the move. So, I thought I’d fill you in. Keeping The Archives Our original plan was to only keep posts from 2010 and later. This decision was met with, shall we say, a great deal of surprise, and […]
Moving NTDEV, NTFSD and WINDBG — What’s Next
Community Members: This is the first in a short series of preparatory articles about moving OSR’s peer support forums, NTDEV, NTFSD, and WINDBG from their long-time home to a new and thoroughly modern platform. In this post, we discuss the history of the lists, our search for a new home, and the features we’ll be […]
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