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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 the Windows 11 Version 22H2 WDK. Support for VS 2022 is a good thing. Given that many (if not most) Windows driver developers these days often also write some sort of application code, having one tool chain that supports both jobs is both useful and most welcome....

The 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 …

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, cultural, or social background, they get on board with the idea of changing those names. Sometimes the changes are simple; As easy as replacing one troublesome term with an equally good neutral term....

The 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 …

OSR's 2022 Public Seminar Schedule (Q1/Q2) -

OSR's 2022 Public Seminar Schedule (Q1/Q2)

The results are in: Microsoft is definitely eliminating cross-signing, and won't be doing anything to facilitate our updating drivers on down-level versions of Windows. Score a loss for the driver development community.

Lost Cause: No Driver Updates Allowed, Except for Win 10 For months, the team here at OSR has been actively working with folks at Microsoft to find a solution to allow drivers on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 systems, including Server 2012 R2, to…

My article for The NT Insider on static analysis tools for driver developers included the following off-hand comment: We’re not going to discuss SDV in this article because (a) it provides a very different type of analysis from that provided by Code Analysis and Clang-Tidy, and (b) nobody at OSR has been able to get it to work – at all – in VS 2019....

Making SDV Work with VS 2019 and WDK 2004 My article for The NT Insider on static analysis tools for driver developers included the following off-hand comment: We’re not going to discuss SDV in this article because (a) it provides a very d…