Debugging

!exploitable (pronounced "bang exploitable") Crash Analyzer is a plugin for the Windows Debugger that parses your crash logs and gives you two important pieces of information. First, it will collate all of your crashes and determine exactly how many there actually are. So for example,…

UPDATED for the VS2010 Beta 2 release Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: In the next version of .NET and C++ that ship with Visual Studio 2010, a new task-based programming model is introduced. In this short video you will learn about Parallel Tasks, a new debugger window…

UPDATED for the VS2010 Beta 2 release Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: As developers try to take advantage of more and more cores in their applications, ultimately more and more threads will execute their code at the same time. When debugging such applications, there is a need…

In the fifth and final debugging screencast by Brian Hitney, we'll look at how to use the set next statement while debugging. We'll also look at setting up the .NET Reference Source Code for stepping through the .NET BCLs, followed by some exception handling tips.  Finally, we'll take a look…

Developers Thomas Lai and David Broman join Program Manager Jon Langdon to share with us some of the new debugging and profiling enhancements in CLR 4. They've done a lot work in the upcoming release and besides evolving debugging and profilining capabilities and semantics (APIs),…

This is another DevNugget screencast from Brian Hitney. In the previous screencasts, we looked at setting breakpoints and how to work with advanced breakpoints, filters, and working with multiple threads.  We also took a quick look at tracepoints.  In part 4, we'll look at the watch…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney: In parts 1 and 2, we looked at setting breakpoints, and talked about setting up advanced breakpoints using hit counts and some simple conditions.  In part 3, we’ll dive a little deeper into some conditions by writing methods to help debug our…

SQL Server Profiler is a tool every developer should have in their repertoire. With the use of frameworks and abstractions, we often lose sight of what is actually hitting the database, and there’s no better way to get that information than SQL Server Profiler. It has a few knobs and dials that…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney: Part 1 was a pretty basic introduction to setting breakpoints.  Now it’s time to have a bit more fun!  In part 2, I’ll look at using breakpoint modifiers – specifically, using the hit count modifier, and then the condition modifier.  The…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney. Recently, I’ve been doing a number of talks on tips and tricks with the Visual Studio debugger.  I thought it would be a good idea to start putting together a series of DevNuggets on these tips – so here is the first!   Part 1 is…