Archive for March, 2009

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Uninstalling Visual Studio 2005

Posted by Satya Das
March 22, 2009

In order to switch to Visual Studio 2008 and have just one version of Visual Studio running on the system, I uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 on my Vista 32-bit machine. When the uninstallation completed, I got a message from the uninstaller that read something like this -

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Windows kernel mode driver signing certificates

Posted by Satya Das
March 15, 2009

A question that is often raised in the windows driver community, is which vendor’s certificate works for signing kernel mode drivers in 64-bit Vista/2008. Many times certificate vendor websites and their support personnel are unaware of the windows kernel mode code signing requirements and may misguide companies into buying wrong type of certificate. If it [...]