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Getting Started Extending the VS Debugger
The documentation for all the pieces and enhancements made to the VS Debugger automation model over...
Date: 09/08/2008
Need to write a new Debugging Engine for your favorite platform?
Jackson, recently posted a new sample for how to write a Visual Studio debug engine. As Joc put it:...
Date: 02/20/2008
Why does Visual Studio require debugger symbol files to exactly match the binary files that they were built with?
Recently a coworker of mine lost the symbol file for one of his binaries. Because he needed to debug...
Date: 07/06/2007
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools (On vacation)
Spending the week on vacation. I'll return with more tips next week! Happy Thanksgiving!
Date: 11/21/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #8
Noisy breakpoints! Ok this feature has been around for a long time, but it's really almost...
Date: 11/18/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #7
Moving tracepoints and breakpoints around I have found the addition of tracepoints in Visual Studio...
Date: 11/17/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #6
Create an Object ID to keep track of an object while debugging In yesterday's tip I hinted at...
Date: 11/16/2005
A welcome tool for improving Windows color management!
It's been a very long time since I blogged about digital photography and yet I noticed that my...
Date: 11/16/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #5
Enhanced DataTips have a context menu Because of the transient nature of DataTips inside Visual...
Date: 11/15/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #4
Keyboard navigation and transparency with Enhanced DataTips Steve Steiner recently blogged about how...
Date: 11/14/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #3
Use tracepoints to log execution flow and even modify it! You may or may not know about tracepoints...
Date: 11/11/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #2
Use format specifiers or type-casting in Enhanced Datatips. Ever wish you could use our new enhanced...
Date: 11/10/2005
Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools #1
This tip was posted a long time ago on my blog, but I thought it would be a good one to start with...
Date: 11/10/2005
Announcing Debugger Tips, Tricks and Tools
Given that my job here at MS is that of Debugger UI guy, I thought it would be nice to regularly...
Date: 11/10/2005
Wow... it's been over a year since I last blogged.
I'd like to think I was mildly missed! But if not, c'est la vie. In case anybody wonders, I want to...
Date: 09/12/2005
Debugging Glossary
During a recent UI meeting here at work, one of our PM's (Habib Heydarian) mentioned that while at...
Date: 08/26/2004
Debugging Glossary
Terms and Definitions related to debugging, debuggers and Visual Studio's implementation of a...
Date: 08/26/2004
Debugger windows, under what menu item should they live?
Andy has recently posted a question: Should debugging windows be accessible under the Views...
Date: 06/18/2004
JoeN's Visual Studio 2005 Walkthrough...
In case I've whetted your appetite with Enhanced Datatips, JoeN (one of our senior Visual C# PMs)...
Date: 06/08/2004
Enhanced Datatip Design Notes
If you attended the recent Tech Ed in San Diego, you would have had a chance to see some of the new...
Date: 06/07/2004
Uh oh... Good Music vs Bad Music strikes again...
Wait, while I put up my flame resistant walls... Ok, here it is... Good Music vs Bad Music
Date: 05/15/2004
Digital Camera recommendations...
(Feedback based update: 7/7/2004) Due to my computer and photography interests, I get asked quite...
Date: 04/22/2004
Want to know: Use editor font in watch windows?
One of the recent requests in my post Wanted: Debugger User Interface Feedback was to allow the font...
Date: 04/17/2004
Wanted: Debugger User Interface Feedback
In the past, we have relied on internal dogfooding, external alphas and betas, and usability studies...
Date: 02/14/2004
The Visual Studio Debugger on the Wikipedia
While searching for information about submarines for one of my sons, I ran across several really...
Date: 02/14/2004
Poor Man's Features
Just like any software development company, the individual teams at Microsoft frequently find...
Date: 01/28/2004