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Reminder: WPDUG September Meeting
04 September 11 01:05 AM | pavely | with no comments

This Wednesday (the 7th) will hold a Windows Platform Developer User Group meeting in Microsoft’s offices in Ra’anana (Israel). Our first session will be about adding realtime and deterministic capabilities to Windows and its impact on the system and the ways to program such a system (all based on addons by a company called TenAsys ). The second session will demonstrate useful (and undocumented) debugging tips and tricks in Visual Studio (primarily for native developers). Should be interesting for...

תגים:C++, Debugging, DEV, Win32, Internals, Intel, Windows Platfrom User Group, Tips

Windows Platform Developers User Group meeting
06 October 10 10:45 PM | pavely | 3 comment(s)

This evening was a WPDUG meeting on CLR hosting and CLR profiling. Thank you all for coming! It was a pleasure to see so many of you there. My session was on CLR hosting, using the new CLR 4 hosting API. This is done using native code (C++) that uses COM for communication between the CLR and the host, both ways. I showed how to enumerate the installed runtimes, how to load a specific CLR (a new feature of CLR 4 – the ability to host multiple CLRs in a single process), how to create an application...

תגים:MFC, COM, C++, .NET, CLR, DEV, Win32, Internals, .NET 4, Windows Platfrom User Group

Windows Platform Developers UG Session
24 February 10 10:00 AM | pavely | 1 comment(s)

Last night I delivered a session entitled “Writing Software Device Drivers on Windows” in the Windows Platform Developers user group . I gave a “crash course” of 1.5 hours on writing a driver that allows me to execute code within the kernel to do things that are not possible from user mode. Thank you all for coming and for the great feedback! I’ve attached the presentation and the demo code, including the driver code, the installer and the client application. Note that to compile successfully with...

תגים:C++, Threading, DEV, Win32, Internals, WinDbg, Windows Platfrom User Group, Device Drivers