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Driver Package Compatibility For Windows Vista
White Papers In beta testing for the Windows Vista operating system, the Microsoft Windows development teams are observing driver installation failures as reported to Microsoft through Windows Error Reporting. The error reports are revealing many driver...
[November 21, 2006, 23:00]
Driver Compatibility For Dynamic Hardware Partitioning
White Papers It provides guidelines for driver writers to develop device drivers that will function properly on dynamically partitionable servers. This paper provides information about dynamic hardware partitioning - the hot addition and hot replacement of...
[March 1, 2007, 23:00]
Driver Hang Verifier
White Papers Driver Hang Verifier is a new completion/cancellation option for I/O Verification in Driver Verifier. This paper describes how driver writers and manufacturers can use Driver Hang Verifier to test I/O completion and cancellation logic in their...
[July 26, 2007, 0:00]
Driver Magician Lite
Downloads Driver Magician Lite identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk, and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore...
[April 3, 2008, 20:46]
Driver Magician Lite
Downloads Driver Magician Lite identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk, and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore...
[May 6, 2008, 15:06]
Driver Package Integrity During Plug And Play Device Installations In Windows Vista
White Papers Microsoft Windows Vista now allows any Plug and Play driver to be signed by companies other than Microsoft. This change allows Windows to verify the origin and integrity of driver packages while giving IT departments and vendors more flexibility in...
[November 21, 2006, 23:00]
Driver Install Frameworks For Applications Version 2.0
White Papers This paper provides information about the Microsoft Windows Driver Install Frameworks for Applications (DIFxApp) version 2.0, which is a component of the Microsoft Windows Driver Install Frameworks (DIFx).
[August 2, 2007, 0:00]
Driver Package Installer Version 2.0
White Papers This paper provides information about the Microsoft Windows Driver Package Installer (DPInst) version 2.0 for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. DPInst is a component of the Microsoft Windows Driver Install Frameworks (DIFx) that...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
PREfast For Drivers - Driver Patterns
White Papers It provides information for driver developers about the sort of additional capabilities that could be added in future releases of PREfast and solicits patterns that PREfast might attempt to discover in the future.
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
Stability Benchmark - Driver Crash Rating Program
White Papers This paper provides information about a proposed program to measure the stability of Longhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM) drivers based on customer crash data from systems running Windows Longhorn. Crash data is one of the best indicators of...
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Driver Compatibility For Windows Vista
White Papers It provides pointers to information that driver developers can use to update their drivers to work properly in Windows Vista. This paper provides information about backward compatibility issues that drivers that are implemented for Microsoft...
[November 21, 2006, 23:00]
Oracle Beefs Up PHP Driver
News Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP. The enhanced driver allows for server-side connection pooling across multiple web servers, which Oracle hopes will bring...
[October 11, 2007, 12:38]
Architecture Of The User-Mode Driver Framework
White Papers The Microsoft Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) includes frameworks to support the development of both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers. The User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) enables drivers for some types of devices to run in user mode instead of...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
Dell, HP, Lenovo Back Linux With Driver Promise
News This year we saw breakthroughs in driver support for the desktop, IPV6 compliance and virtualisation. Currently, if there is a problem with a proprietary driver, only the company that made the driver can fix it.
[May 2, 2008, 8:18]
Introduction To Plug And Play And Power Management In The Windows Driver Foundation
White Papers The Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) defines a new model for developing device drivers for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. This paper provides an introduction to how drivers implement Plug and Play and Power Management features...
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Configuring A DataSource On WebSphere 4.01 For Z/OS And OS/390 Using Oracle Thin-Client Type-4 Driver
White Papers This paper provides all the information you need to configure a connection-pooled datasource using WebSphere Application Server Version 4.01 for z/OS and OS/390 with an Oracle thin-client type-4 driver.
[January 19, 2005, 23:00]
Concurrent Driver Upgrade: Method To Eliminate Scheduled System Outages For New Function Releases
White Papers IBM developed the Concurrent Driver Upgrade (CDU) feature so that customers could add new functions without downtime. It is now possible to upgrade the zSeries firmware Engineering Change (EC) driver to the next EC level without any performance...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
Windows Longhorn Driver Kit
White Papers The Longhorn Driver Kit (LDK) is a fully integrated driver development system for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. System manufacturers, hardware vendors, and driver writers will be able to use the LDK throughout the driver...
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Static Driver Verifier: Finding Bugs In Device Drivers At Compile-Time
White Papers Writing a robust driver based on the Microsoft Windows Driver Model (WDM) requires a lot of expertise and a precise understanding of how the driver interacts with the I/O manager. This paper provides information about Static Driver Verifier (SDV...
[July 8, 2004, 0:00]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
News So you need to go and ask the manufacturer for a 64-bit driver for that three-year old printer. Companies who make the move to 64-bit computing could be hit by a lack of compatible hardware drivers, representative from some of the world's largest...
[May 10, 2005, 19:10]
