Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek
More on SoftIce, from one of its parents
Frank Grossman, one of the original authors of SoftIce and owners of NuMega sent this around to some...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/11/2006
x64 Article is available online now
In a nice twist, I recently learned that my x64 article for MSDN magazine is online now. In a...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/10/2006
R.I.P. SoftICE
A sad, sad day... As of April 3rd, 2006 the DriverStudio product family has retired. For customer...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/07/2006
My X64 Programming article for MSDN is finally out
You can see a pretty picture of what the MSDN cover looks like here:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/06/2006
Now Officially Middle Aged
Among this weekend's highlights Missing dinner with my beloved because of a bomb threat Turning 40...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/30/2006
Why can't I detach the debugger from an app?
An interesting internal thread on debugging went by, and it was news to me, so figured I'd share. In...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/12/2006
Comcast 8Mbps cable service
So last night I endured the 15 minute phone conversation with a Comcast rep to sign up for "Game...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/11/2006
Fun with SpyAxe
Normally I don’t hit by viruses. I’m very good with Windows Update and keeping the anti-virus...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/03/2006
One reason why I haven't been writing books
Charles Petzold's latest post on books as long format tutorials vs. reference material hits the nail...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 12/14/2005
VS debugger running slowly? Check your breakpoints!
If you're finding that the VS debugging seems to get slower and slower (especially when you first...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 12/07/2005
Silence is Golden
Many (most?) of the Developer Division folks were given the last three days of this week off to rest...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/28/2005
PDC05 - Amazing C++ futures talk
Just went to Herb Sutter's talk on C++ futures. Really rocking stuff! Check out the slides for...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/16/2005
PDC05 - I finally meet Raymond Chen
Last night was the "Ask the experts" event. A huge buffet dinner for everyone, with several dozen...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/16/2005
PDC05 - Windows Workflow Framework
Cool new technology I wasn't aware of. Imagine drawing out your workflow (both machine and human...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/14/2005
PDC05 - Rico Rocks on performance
Attended the lunchtime presentation by Rico Mariani on writing faster managed code. The cool thing I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/14/2005
PDC05 - Come keep me busy - Ask debugging & Profiling questions
Just finished the keynote, followed by a quick spin around the exhibition hall. I'm in the Tools...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/13/2005
PDC05 - Wireless hell - A solution?
Been going batty trying to get my notebook to work DNS-wise with the wireless networks at the PDC....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
PDC05 - Power's back
I had faint hopes for a few seconds of being one of the first to blog about the power failure that...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
PDC05 - Arrival
The carpet in the "Tools and Languages" track lounge is unbelievably well padded. I think I could...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
Finding me at the PDC
Just attended a meeting for all the PDC staff. Since the schedules and names are still up in the...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/08/2005
I'm going to the PDC!
I started my own personal campaign inside Microsoft to go to the PDC many months ago. It was close,...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/08/2005
Follow on to Raymond's post on Dr. Watson
Raymond's post on the history of Dr. Watson is right on the money. Some additional info, since I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/10/2005
"Source Server" - The best "Hidden" feature in Whidbey Debugging
On the drive to work today, Chris Sells asked me what was new & cool with Whidbey debugging....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/10/2005
A utility that rocks!
Somehow I've been under a rock, and just discovered this now:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/03/2005
Galapagos photos
For all those asking for pictures from my honeymoon in the Galapagos, I've posted them here:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/26/2005
Where am I, and what's this ring on my finger?
A few non-technical posts going forward. The reason: This is my first week back in the office after...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/20/2005
The Innovation Tax
(Yep... it has been a long time since my last post.) Last week I was out at dinner with Barb,...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 06/08/2005
Quite possibly the best stack trace ever
Awhile back I wrote about "Matt's Huge Irritating Banner", in which I filled up a status window with...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 05/05/2005
A reader's comments on my ETW post
(Reposting this, as my original post seems to have vanished.) Awhile back, I wrote on producing ETW...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 05/05/2005
These specs are harder to find on the web than I thought
Someone recently wrote me, asking for the old CodeView format. I told him that it was readily...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/14/2005
Help tracking down Win32 SxS manifest issues
Today I had my first experience with using manifest files for Win32 binaries. If you're only...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/12/2005
Diagnosing DBGHELP symbol loading
I've had a love/hate relationship with DBGHELP.DLL for a long time, as reader of my MSDN column well...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/12/2005
My new toy
I was at the company store yesterday, and noticed the new Microsoft Fingerprint Reader, which was...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/06/2005
ETW Tracing: How and Why?
Awhile ago, I wrote about examining the structure of ETW Events by look at the MOF data in CIM...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 03/23/2005
The Debugger Rules
I alluded to some debugger cardinal rules in a prior post. However, they may well be something that...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/23/2005
Why does the PDB format change every release?
In another post, Steve Loughran asks "Why does the PDB format change every release? What is wrong...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/05/2005
More Windows x64 fun
I'm really getting a kick out of playing with Windows on x64. Since my last post, I've successfully...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/04/2005
Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) and Programs Using DBGHELP
Yesterday I spent a long time tracking down a problem with PDB symbol access. I figured I could...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/04/2005
A kid in a Win64 Candy Store
Just today I finally got a 64 bit version of Windows (the x64 flavor) going on my 2nd development...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/01/2005
Letting the debugger pick a debugging mode - Be cautious
The "Auto" feature in the Visual Studio debugger guesses (based on the EXE used to launch the...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/20/2005
Getting useful stack traces at exception time
One problem with debugging exceptions from a JIT attached debugger is that the call stack usually...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
Where, oh where are my bug fixes?
The Visual Studio and CLR teams are huge. If we were to all develop on the same code base...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
The "Matt's Huge Irritating Banner" Story
By special request, another story from way, way back. In the early days of NuMega, our UI work was...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
File Handle Hell
Raymond Chen has an interesting post about a program that tried to open a file, got back an error...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/18/2005
My inner music geek thinks this is way cool
Just saw this: https://www.umixitmusic.com/ Basically, it provides you with the isolated audio tracks...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/14/2005
Debugging data driven development - Doable?
In a discussion with some architects yesterday, I came upon the point that a new form of debugging...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/06/2005