Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/432385_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks The Visual Studio Debugger provides a slew of features that make the task of debugging both easier and more efficient. Learn about time-saving tips and tricks for all versions of the Visual Studio Debugger, including the new debugger features in Visual Studio 2010. Hear about the new mixed-mode debugging feature, the breakpoints window enhancements, the new WPF visualizers, and a number of other features. Also learn about thread debugging enhancements, new features for making stepping into properties easier, and more. Join us as we crack open the toolbox and walk through some of the debugger's best practices. John Cunningham John has been in the business of debuggers and diagnostic tools for around 15 years. He cut his teeth on debuggers for Windows 16 and 32bit, SunOS and Solaris. After a brief stint doing embedded debuggers at Wind River Systems, John joined Microsoft during the Visual Studio .Net product cycle. He has worked as a developer and lead on native and managed debuggers. John was part of the TeamSystem team from Day -30, working on the VS profiler and code coverage. Since then John has worked on starting the project for the application flight recorder as well as continuing to develop debugging and profiling technologies. John dreams in CodeView records. There is no cure. en Wed, 22 May 2013 16:13:02 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 16:13:02 GMT Rev9 Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks posted by hillr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633611841790000000 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:56:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633611841790000000 hillr Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks
You can use a conditional breakpoint and use an expression with "has changed", but it is not nearly as performant as a databp, and it is not the same thing (the DRs fire no matter if you are writing the same value back).

Anyway - hope you enjoyed the talk,

John

posted by JoC

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633616972720000000 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:27:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633616972720000000 JoC Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks   I enjoyed the talk, but I also wished you'd been able to get it in. I'm a native programmer switching to .Net.

  I'm not sure why they'd be any more 'weird' in .Net than they are under Native.

  As a games programmer, I've had several problems that I've had to troubleshoot in release mode because it takes too long to run things in debug mode. I assume that for .Net, I'd have to attach to the process after it starts to avoid running a debug build. I assume that a release build would inline the accessor, to the only optins available are hardware breakpoints and print statements Sad

  I've found them fantastically useful in debugging things like buffer overruns in native code. Even though that class of bugs isn't supposed to be there, I suspect that there is a new class of bugs related to multi-threading that are coming at us. Data breakpoints seem like an obvious way (to me) to troubleshoot these types of issues.

Ralph

posted by Ralph Trickey

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633642863220000000 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:38:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633642863220000000 Ralph Trickey Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks

posted by sbehnke

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633651493330000000 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:22:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c633651493330000000 sbehnke Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks Thanks, nice lecture!

Also i would like to share an Add-in for visual studio that makes it easy to attaching to process lazy.codeplex.com/

posted by pablog

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c634000925160000000 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:48:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c634000925160000000 pablog Re: Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks Nice tips let me just share that for debugger security you must be able to trust what you are debbugin, I think this is the most careful step for debuggin, there are many trheats and consequences involved. As Ralph tricky mentionede it takes too long to run things in debug mode

 

posted by Rebeasty

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c634118861530000000 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:49:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL59#c634118861530000000 Rebeasty