Debugging

Download PPTX slide here: Part 3 Ever try to load SOS/psscor into your debugging session and get a "Failed to load data access dll" error?  It's not uncommon, especially when you first start debugging .NET applications.  Join us for a brief introduction to Windbg before we…

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 week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:10] 100 million licenses, 250 million Store app downloads, 400 million active Outlook accounts [00:56] Build will release a public preview of “Windows Blue” [01:36] Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live”…

WCF is an integral part of the communication stack for Silverlight applications, but sometimes things go wrong, very wrong. How do you fix those issues. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Yavor Georgiev from the WCF and Silverlight team shows you how to identfy the problems with your WCF…

You recently learned about Image Watch, a Visual Studio 2012 plug-in for visually debugging (watch window, locals, etc...) image processing code in C++. How does it work? What does the implementation look like (or how was it designed, how much modern C++ does it employ, how old is…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen walk you through the CLR Garbage Collector. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team. Resources:Maoni's WebLogChannel9 - CLR 4 Garbage Collector - Inside Background GCChannel9 - CLR 4.5: Maoni…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 4 "I got my first dump.  Now where do I begin?" I get this question a lot from customers and fellow Premier Field Engineers who are learning how to debug post-mortem dump files of problematic .NET applications.  In Part 4 of our series, we cover…

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering,® is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering.…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the Event…

Richard Guthrie, Escalation Engineer, presented a session covering debugging tools that can be used for troubleshooting Windows at the 2009 Active Directory Windows Protocols Plugfest.   Richard answered windows debugging questions as well.   Debugging with Windbg including…