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The Moth, May 2, 2012
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Previously I covered step 1 of live debugging with start and attach. Once the debugger is attached, you want to go to step 2 of live debugging, which is to break. One way to break under the debugger ...
The Moth, March 16, 2012
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Every developer is familiar with hitting F5 and debugging their application, which starts their app with the Visual Studio debugger attached from the start (instead of attaching later). This is one wa...
K. Scott Allen, March 15, 2012
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The Chrome Developer Tools are a bit quirky, but for script debugging I currently like them the best. Here is a quick brain dump on some areas of interest (these are all in the stable build 17.0.963.7...
The Moth, March 14, 2012
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Based on my classification of diagnostics, you should know what live debugging is NOT about - at least according to me :-) and in this post I'll share how I think of live debugging.
These are the (ou...
Frans Boumas blog, January 20, 2012
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Recently I received an email with the following contents: I recently started working at a startup. I'm learning lots of cool stuff, including unit testing, but as a math major something kinda nagg...
The Moth, December 31, 2011
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Once again (like in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) the time has come to wish you a Happy New Year and to share my favorite posts from the year we just left behind. 1. My first blog entr...
Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, December 4, 2011
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As I do more with Roslyn, I find I want more information about what Im parsing and how its represented in the Roslyn object model. I could, of course, have built myself a little OM dumper for Roslyn, ...
The Code Project Latest Articles, October 24, 2011
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A beginner introduction to the features of the Chrome Debugger....
The Moth, September 21, 2011
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With VS 11 Developer Preview we have invested tremendously in parallel debugging for both CPU (managed and native) and GPU debugging. I'll be doing a whole bunch of blog posts on those topics, and in ...
Somasegars WebLog, June 14, 2011
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Today, we’re releasing Debugger Canvas on DevLabs.
Debugger Canvas is a new user experience for stepping through code in the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate. It displays the code of each of t...
C# Frequently Asked Questions, March 28, 2011
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This blog post explains how to kick off a debugger in a remote machine, programmatically. We are going to use WMI interfaces to achieve this. Use WMI, to start the debuggee process and attach a regist...
The Code Project Latest Articles, December 26, 2010
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Let's enhance our Debugger!...
Simple Talk, December 19, 2010
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As I had mentioned last month, I have been working on a project to create an easy-to-use managed debugger. It's still an internal tool that we use at Red Gate as part of product support to analyze app...
K. Scott Allen, November 8, 2010
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The following tests all pass for .NET 4.0s ExpandoObject. private dynamic expando = new ExpandoObject();
[Test]
public void Can_Add_A_Member()
{
var expected = "Scott";
expand...
ScottGus Blog, August 19, 2010
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This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts Im doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Todays blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My fr...
Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, June 4, 2010
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I was lamenting that we haven't really done terribly much to make multi-threaded debugging easier in say the last decade and I was fortunate enough to be able to have a conversation with Brain Crawfor...
ScottGus Blog, April 21, 2010
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This is the twenty-first in a series of blog posts Im doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Todays blog post covers a few of the nice usability improvements coming with the VS 2010 debugge...
The Moth, April 12, 2010
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Internally and unofficially we refer to this as "HPC Server v3" and its Beta2 became available last week. Read the full story on this blog post from Ryan and this one from Don. There has be...
Simple Talk, March 24, 2010
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Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's tool SOS (Son of Strike) which is a debugger extension for debugging managed code, ...
The Moth, March 2, 2010
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I've blogged before about the MPI Cluster Debugger in VS2010 that facilitates launching the application on the cluster and attaching the debugger (btw, a shorter version of the screencast I link to th...
The Moth, November 12, 2009
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Using Visual Studio 2010 parallel debugging is easy. Two new debugging windows provide a total view of the internals of your PPL and TPL applications with hints on where to start investigations. These...
The Moth, November 7, 2009
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Recently I gave a talk at our Microsoft Shanghai offices on Parallel Programming so I had to update my existing Beta1 deck to Beta2 content. Specifically for Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks, I used...
The Moth, November 6, 2009
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If you are developing MS MPI applications with Visual Studio 2010, you are probably tired of following some tedious steps for every new C++ project that you create, similar to the following:1. In Solu...
Simple Talk, October 14, 2009
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Visual Studio is fine for most debugging purposes. Just occasionally, it isn't practicable, or there are other quicker ways of doing it with a user-mode debugger. Edward argues that debugging in MSIL...
Rick Strahls WebLog, September 24, 2009
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So imagine you are running your ASP.NET applications in medium trust and you want to access a debugger visualizer like this: by clicking on the little search icon in the debugger tooltip, you run...
JohnPapa.net, September 17, 2009
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I recently wrote an article that demonstrates how to use the DataForm and validate data entry in Silverlight using the DataAnnotations. One of the pet peeves I have with the validation is that it thro...
Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., July 3, 2009
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I can't believe I put up with this problem for so long. It was an easy solution, just not an obvious one.
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Rick Strahls WebLog, March 22, 2009
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I ran into an odd behavior/bug with Internet Explorer today that I hadnt noticed before in relation to global variable assignments. Check out the following code that fails for me in IE 8 both in compa...
Brad Abrams, February 3, 2009
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Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2nd edition.. This content is found in the Object.ToString section of Chapter 8:...
Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, January 26, 2009
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In my last couple posts, I've highlighted a way to inject debugging into dependency properties updated via data binding. It seems to work fine, but it's not clear how to apply it in certain sc...
Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, January 23, 2009
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This is going to be a pretty brief post. I just wanted to mention a small addition to the data binding debugging solution I posted about last time. When we left off, we had a pretty decent solution to...
Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, January 18, 2009
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WPF is a great technology. It's changed the way we write rich desktop apps for Windows. But after using it for an appreciable length of time (eight or nine months), I've come to two conclusion...
Brian Desmonds Blog, January 5, 2009
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I ran into an interesting issue this evening where the Spooler service on a customer's print server was crashing constantly immediately after logging an event about unpublishing a specific printer. Si...
The Visual Basic Team, December 30, 2008
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It's common that you want to launch an external process but supply input and capture the output. Here's one attempt:
' BAD CODE
Using p As New System.Diagnostics.Process
&nb...
The Visual Basic Team, December 9, 2008
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The ability to unwind the call stack from exceptions is one of the debugger features that was newly introduced in Visual Basic.NET 2005. When the debugger hits a first-chance exception, you can unwind...
kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, November 26, 2008
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949009 ... FIX: Error message when you build a project in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 after an .lib file or an .obj file that was built by using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 is added to the project: "Fatal e...
The Moth, November 19, 2008
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I have mentioned previously on this blog the two new debugger toolwindows our team is adding to Visual Studio 2010: Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks. I will be blogging a lot more about these, so fo...
Karl Seguin [MVP], November 4, 2008
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Just as an aside, Part 2 of my jQuery article is up.
I think this is something most people know, but wanted to throw it out there just in case. There are subtleties that should be understood when usi...
Steven Smith, October 23, 2008
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A common area to test in software are ranges of values and off-by-one errors. But this problem certainly isn't limited to programmer code. I just wrapped up a survey by TNS for customer sa...
ISerializable, October 11, 2008
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Two features that Typemock Isolator has make the debugging experience with it very different than any other isolation framework: 1) Highlight fake method during debugging When stepping ...
The Code Project Latest Articles, October 9, 2008
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Intellisense debugger fails computation on inheritance...
Guy Barrettes WebLog, October 8, 2008
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I was hit with the dreadful "The breakpoint will not currently be hit" problem this week. Searching the Web, looks like it is a common problem both with VS 2005 and 2008 however, it was the fi...
The Moth, October 1, 2008
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Previously I asked about properties of Tasks that you'd like to see when debugging and suggested some: [...]which ones are not scheduled yet [...], which ones are Running and which ones have run a bit...
The Moth, September 27, 2008
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My previous post (on active stack frame and current thread) ended by raising an issue, a solution to which I propose below.Consider the following screenshot of code (inc. snippet from Threads window) ...
The Moth, September 22, 2008
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Each thread has a call stack (a list of stack frames, each representing a method call and the relevant state). When you break in the debugger, you can see it in the Call Stack window for the current t...
The Moth, September 15, 2008
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Whilst debugging code that uses multiple anonymous methods (or lambdas) from a single method combined with multiple Threads, an interesting issue surfaces with the stack frames that Visual Studio 2008...
The Moth, September 8, 2008
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The second question (B) of the quiz I posted here was meant to make you think about the complications of adding a Task reference to the Watch window. I then went on to show how to use Tack.Current and...
The Moth, September 1, 2008
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Using the Make Object ID feature we were able to turn this screenshot into that screenshot.Building on the Task.Current approach, I wanted to avoid having to expand the variable and instead wanted to ...
Rick Strahls WebLog, August 26, 2008
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It's just not my day I suppose. Maybe not my week is more like it really. Nothing wants to go right. Anyway, here's an interesting problem that I've never seen before. I'm calling a COM object from m...
The Moth, August 26, 2008
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I only learnt about this featurette very recently (from a reader's comment) and immediately found a use for it read on.If you tried to debug the code from this exercise (still no correct answers to t...