Should I Set PnPLockdown=1?
At some point recently (“recently” being defined as “in the last year or so”) the WDK started whining at me with the following warning: It insists that I should specify PnPLockdown=1 in my INF. What IS...
View ArticleThe Names, They Are a Changin’
Times change. People, even engineers, eventually “clue up.” As people become sensitive to the negative impact that the names of things can have on those who don’t share their own ethnic, racial,...
View ArticleThe Windows Driver Kit and Visual Studio 2022
It took “a while” but, without any fanfare, sometime in May of 2022, Microsoft released a version of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) that supports Visual Studio (VS) 2022. This version is referred to as...
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It Passes Code Analysis
It’s great that your driver passes Code Analysis! But do you know that even the “Driver Recommended” rule set leaves out a lot of useful tests? We are indeed extremely fortunate to have the tooling...
View ArticleBig Bug in Driver Verifier == HUGE Problem for the Community (FIXED!)
Last Update: 9 July 2024 (14:50 US Eastern Time — see bottom of the blog post for summary of updates) We significantly updated this blog on 13 May 2024, to reflect the fact that the problem appears to...
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