Debugging Tools for Windows: New for Windows 10

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Windows 10, version 1703

This section describes new debugging tools in Windows 10, version 1703.

• Eight new JavaScript topics including JavaScript Debugger Scripting
• Updates to the dx (Display Debugger Object Model Expression) command, to include new command capabilities.
• New dtx (Display Type - Extended Debugger Object Model Information) command.
• New !ioctldecode command.
• Updated Debugger Engine Reference to include additional interfaces and structures.
• Updates to Configuring tools.ini to document additional options for the command line debuggers.
• Published 75 previously undocumented stop codes in Bug Check Code Reference.
• New Supported Ethernet NICs for Network Kernel Debugging in Windows 10 topic.

Windows 10, version 1607

This section describes new debugging tools in Windows 10, version 1607.

• New topic about Debugging a UWP app using WinDbg.
• Updates to the 30 most-viewed developer bug check topics in Bug Check Code Reference.

Windows 10

• .settings (Set Debug Settings) - New command that allows you to set, modify, display, load and save settings in the Debugger.Settings namespace.
• dx (Display NatVis Expression) - Describes the new dx debugger command, which displays object information using the NatVis extension model and LINQ support.
• New commands that work with the NatVis visualization files in the debugger environment.
  • .nvlist (NatVis List)
  • .nvload (NatVis Load)
  • .nvunload (NatVis Unload)
  • .nvunloadall (NatVis Unload All)
• Bluetooth Extensions (Bthkd.dll)
• Storage Kernel Debugger Extensions
• New Symproxy information including SymProxy Automated Installation. In addition the following topics are updated to cover new SymProxy functionality:
  • HTTP Symbol Stores
  • SymProxy
  • Installing SymProxy
  • Configuring the Registry
  • Configuring IIS for SymProxy
• CDB Command-Line Options - Updated to include new command line options.
• !analyze - Updated to include information about using this extension with UMDF 2.15.
• !wdfkd.wdfcrashdump- Updated to include information about using this extension with UMDF 2.15
• !irp - Updated. Starting with Windows 10 the IRP major and minor code text is displayed in command output.
• Using Debugger Markup Language - Updated to describe new select-and-hold (or right-click) behavior available in the Debugger Markup Language (DML).
• Crash dump analysis using the Windows debuggers (WinDbg) - Performance has increased in taking a memory dump over KDNET.
• Debug Universal Drivers - Step by Step Lab (Echo Kernel-Mode)- New step by step lab that shows how to use WinDbg to debug the sample KMDF echo driver.

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