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The Moth, March 2, 2010
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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 there, is here).There have been ...
The Moth, March 2, 2010
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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 there, is here).There have been ...
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 15, 2009
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HPC bits installed and that you have existing MPI code (or you created a "Hello World" project using the MPI project template). Of course, you create a single MPI application and at runtime it will ...
The Moth, November 15, 2009
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HPC bits installed and that you have existing MPI code (or you created a "Hello World" project using the MPI project template). Of course, you create a single MPI application and at runtime it will ...
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 10, 2009
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video of new VS2010 debugger features that I encourage you to watch to find out about enhancements with DataTips, breakpoints, dump debugging (inc. IL interpreter) and Threads window.The raw list of f...
The Moth, November 10, 2009
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video of new VS2010 debugger features that I encourage you to watch to find out about enhancements with DataTips, breakpoints, dump debugging (inc. IL interpreter) and Threads window.The raw list of f...
The Moth, November 8, 2009
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Beta1 deck to Beta2 content. Specifically for Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks, I used 5 slides to accompany the demo.In case you are giving talks on parallelism within Visual Studio 2010, please fe...
The Moth, November 8, 2009
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Beta1 deck to Beta2 content. Specifically for Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks, I used 5 slides to accompany the demo.In case you are giving talks on parallelism within Visual Studio 2010, please fe...
The Moth, November 7, 2009
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1. In Solution Explorer, right-click YourProjectName, then click Properties to open the Property Pages dialog box.2. Expand Configuration Properties and then under VC++ Directories place the cursor at...
The Moth, November 7, 2009
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1. In Solution Explorer, right-click YourProjectName, then click Properties to open the Property Pages dialog box.2. Expand Configuration Properties and then under VC++ Directories place the cursor at...
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...
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...
eXtensible mind, November 19, 2008
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I've just released a new version of Moq which contains a few bug fixes but two extremely useful features: recursive mocks and mocked default values. Recursive mocks Quite often you have a root mock ob...
eXtensible mind, November 19, 2008
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In my very recent previous post I said ""mocking and stubbing easier than ever"", but actually forgot to mention the stubbing part :S. This one is not new for users of moq-contrib, but we decided ...
eXtensible mind, November 19, 2008
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I realized that I never blogged about this cool feature contributed by Slava to Moq-Contrib. Auto-mocking containers was an idea originally (IIRC) from the guys at Eleutian, later on picked up by Jere...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
eXtensible mind, August 22, 2008
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Here's what we're currently doing: we add an InitializeContext method to all DataContext-derived classes, which is called from all ctors: private void InitializeContext()
{
#if DEBUG
if...
Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, August 22, 2008
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I had to explain this a little while ago and I wrote up something that I thought was generally interesting. This is only approximately correct (even the examples are a flawed) but I think ...
Cirrus Minor, August 20, 2008
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I was demonstrating a POC I wrote to one
of my colleagues and I showed him one of the integration demo where I have a two console
application - a producer and a consumer who communicate by WCF. He w...
Simple Talk, August 12, 2008
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When good software goes bad, the right axe to wield at it is usually a debugger. Anyone who has used a debugger will probably tell you that this is a last resort, though, unless they are masochists wh...