The next building block for my bootloader project is ready! nt-apiset is a parser written in Rust for the API Set Map files of Windows 10 and later versions. API Sets are dependencies of PE executables whose names start with “api-” or “ext-”, e.g. api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0 …
This release was not planned. I actually wanted to write a parser for Windows apiset DLLs, but quickly found myself implementing the umpteenth string type to handle Windows UTF-16 characters. After having done that work once for nt-hive and another time for ntfs, it was time to refactor the common parts into a crate …
I recently attended the first ever EuroRust in Berlin from 13th to 14th October. I have been eagerly looking for such a dedicated European conference on Rust, but my previous Google searches were all in vain - and always ended up here. Glad that’s no longer the case :)
At EuroRust, I had the opportunity to speak …
After the ENLYZE PortSniffer in 2020, I’m glad to announce that another tool I developed at ENLYZE has just been released as open-source.
The ENLYZE S7-Project-Explorer is a Windows application to explore Siemens STEP 7 projects and export a complete PLC variable list as a CSV table. This solves our recurring …
On my quest to develop a ReactOS/Windows bootloader in Rust, I inevitably had to stumble upon the infamous LIST_ENTRY structure used in the LOADER_PARAMETER_BLOCK. This is what Windows, Windows drivers, and components influenced by Windows (e.g. UEFI) have been using for a long time to uniformly handle linked lists …
FOSDEM 2022 has just ended. Despite being an all-virtual event again, it was another awesome conference with a packed schedule full of interesting talks.
I had the honor of speaking about my recent NTFS Rust filesystem crate and the video is now online:
Slides are available here.
Thanks a lot to all volunteers for …
Happy new year everybody! It’s finally time to reveal a project I have been working on over several weekends of the past year. It’s also the next building block on my mission to write a ReactOS/Windows bootloader in Rust.
ntfs is a Rust library that implements the low-level structures of the NTFS …
Our method to build software compatible down to Windows 2000 using Visual Studio 2017 served us well for several months. And trust me, I had really hoped that Windows 2000 would be as low as we ever had to go. But the world of industrial manufacturing surprises you every day. So at some point, we inevitably stumbled …
In my previous blog series, I have shown how to write Win32 applications in 2020 using the amenities that modern C++ brings. Writing an application in 2020 doesn’t mean that we have to forget about 2000 though: The unrivaled compatibility of the Win32 API makes it possible to run your modern application even on …