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A C++ Code Function Tracing Class

by PJ Arends

Trace your function calls to the Output window.

Much Ado About NULL

by Giovanni Scerra

Patterns to prevent null reference exceptions

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 1 - Simple Ways Providing Information for Tracing

by Maxim Kartavenkov

The series of articles covers most aspects of logging and tracing mechanisms which can be embedded into your application. It discusses simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies which were involved in Windows 10.

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

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4 Reasons Why You Should Follow the DRY Principle in Software Development

by Trần_Tuấn_Anh

In the world of software development, the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle is more than just a best practice—it’s a fundamental approach to writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code. But why is it so important?

A C++ Code Function Tracing Class

by PJ Arends

Trace your function calls to the Output window.

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 4 - Saving Log

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of how to organize saving application trace helper information.

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 3 - User Mode Handles in the Kernel

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Continue discussion of the simple kernel drivers tracing mechanisms by using output information into the handles of the files pipes and console passed to the driver from the host application.

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Debugging

Much Ado About NULL

26 Feb 2015 by Giovanni Scerra

Patterns to prevent null reference exceptions

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 1 - Simple Ways Providing Information for Tracing

18 May 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

The series of articles covers most aspects of logging and tracing mechanisms which can be embedded into your application. It discusses simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies which were involved in Windows 10.

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

8 Jun 2017 by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Debugging Live Systems

10 Mar 2022 by Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

How to Use Symbol Server? (and Why You Really Like To Do It...)

13 Jan 2012 by baruchl

How to setup .NET symbol server and enable production debugging without source code

Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio and SSMS

18 Feb 2016 by Kuv Patel

Debug stored procedures in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.

stored-procedure

Windows x64 System Service Hooks and Advanced Debugging

13 Feb 2013 by nick.p.everdox

Working alongside Windows KPP (patchguard) and hooking system services

Visual Studio Loader With Arguments

24 Oct 2018 by Mark Kruger

Visual Studio loader with arguments

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 2 - Simple Ways Tracing in the Kernel Mode

15 Jun 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies involved in Windows 10

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 3 - User Mode Handles in the Kernel

5 Jul 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Continue discussion of the simple kernel drivers tracing mechanisms by using output information into the handles of the files pipes and console passed to the driver from the host application.

Reference Source, dotPeek and Source Code Debugging

20 Jun 2014 by Sebastian Solnica

Reference Source, dotPeek and Source Code Debugging

Digging Yourself Out of a Big Ball of Mud

23 Mar 2015 by Duncan Edwards Jones

What to do (and how to do it) when confronted with a big ball of mud

Nanomite and Debug Blocker for Linux Applications

15 Jul 2013 by Apriorit Inc, Kotik Anton

Modern anti-debug techniques - Nanomites and Debug Blocker - are considered for Windows and Linux code

Debugging AI Code Running in a Docker Container

21 May 2021 by Jarek Szczegielniak

In this article we use Visual Studio Code to edit and debug our increasingly complex code running inside a Docker container.

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

Mdbg watch-trace Extension

27 Feb 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

I wrote a simple extension for the MDbg debugger that adds a watch-trace (wt) command to its shell, allowing you to display and customize the method call trees. In this post, I’m going to show you how this extension was built and how it can be used.

CSS

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Take control of your angle-brackets and optimize. Note: This article spans over the debugging tools for your CSS, JavaScript and other

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 4 - Saving Log

18 Aug 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of how to organize saving application trace helper information.

How to Debug the Linux Kernel with QEMU and Libvirt

1 Mar 2019 by Apriorit Inc, Sergii Kusii

And its modules during runtime

IP Relay for Visual Studio Mobile Device Web Development

16 Mar 2011 by R%S

Enable access from mobile phone emulator to Visual Studio WebDev.WebServer listening on localhost

Robust C++: Safety Net

27 Jun 2022 by Greg Utas

Keeping a program running when it would otherwise abort

10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

30 Dec 2012 by Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

Debugging Multithreaded Code in Real Time!

3 Jul 2014 by Peter Huber SG

Non blocking, multithreading safe tracing with only microseconds delays

10 Even More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

29 Dec 2012 by Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of even more debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

Finalizer Case Explained

28 Apr 2018 by LiYS

Finalizer case explained

Beginner Guide to Page and Script Debugging with Chrome

27 Nov 2011 by DaveAuld

A beginner introduction to the features of the Chrome Debugger

How to Set Debugger to Auto Attach on Process Start

14 Apr 2016 by Eyal Rosner

Easily setting debugger to attach a process on start

Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta

17 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Read the complete article to know more about it and gather knowledge on the debugging feature with a simple code walkthrough. At the end, don't hesitate to leave your feedback. Appreciate your Vote.

Source Indexing and Symbol Servers: A Guide to Easier Debugging

3 Oct 2010 by Anthony Mushrow

Indexing and backing up your debug information files to help debug crashes from out in the wild

QS Part 1 - A New Approach to Unit and Integration Testing

9 Nov 2010 by Simeon Sheye

Quality Gate One Studio is a testing framework that suggests a new approach to unit and integration testing.

Advanced Debugging in Visual Studio

23 Jan 2012 by Pankaj Chamria

Learn the tips and tricks of advanced debugging in Visual Studio

Anti-Debug Time Plugin for OllyDbg

3 Jul 2013 by Apriorit Inc, prepa1

This article describes the implementation of a simple tool to deal with debug blocking based on the function execution time

Dumping .NET Classes to Debug Output

22 Apr 2010 by Alexei Shamov

Class to convert .NET classes into readable debug output with less effort

Silverlight Debugging - Beginner's Guide

22 Dec 2011 by Sunasara Imdadhusen

Debug or attach the debugger to any local process running a Silverlight-based application in all supported browsers in your system.

A Mixed-Mode Stackwalk with the IDebugClient Interface

22 Apr 2012 by Mattias Högström

A native stackwalk funtion like Stackwalk64 cannot handle mixed-mode stacks, since managed code does not use the stack in the same way as native code does. There is an API called IDebugClient, that does walk a mixed-mode stack correctly, which we will explore.

Debugging Hadoop HDFS using IntelliJ IDEA on Linux

27 Dec 2015 by Mallanagouda Patil

This article helps to setup debug environment for hadoop framework on Linux Ubuntu using IntelliJ IDEA

Debugging Dotnet Applications in a Local Docker Container using Visual Studio 2015

22 Nov 2016 by Mahesh Patil

Key issues in setting up VS 2015 for debugging applications running on local docker container

Plugging and Preventing Managed Memory Leaks

22 Nov 2012 by Amit Bezalel

Tackling mananged memory leaks using windbg, profiliers and weakreferencs

Automating the Reporting of Critical Errors in Your Program

2 Dec 2012 by OlegKrivtsov

How to automate collecting information about critical errors occurring in your program to greatly simplify your life in sense of bug analysis and troubleshooting.

Simple two file graphics library for C/C++

16 Apr 2012 by Robert Umbehant

A two file graphics library for debugging otherwise graphically deficient applications.

Load a x86 DLL into a x64 Executable... Mission Possible?

1 Jul 2022 by Michael Chourdakis

Try deep CPU features

10+ Powerful Debugging Tricks with Visual Studio

18 Apr 2012 by Ivan Shcherbakov

The article describes 10 time-saving debugging techniques available in Visual Studio.

WPF Deobfuscator Addin to Visual Studio

30 Apr 2012 by Mattias Högström

A WPF control that deobfuscates the callstack on the fly

Application Design - A Bad Day With Adapter Pattern and Log4Net

6 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This topic will cover the concept of the adapter pattern & how to implement logger using log4net. It will also cover what’s adapter pattern, why need, where & when to use; what’s Log4Net, implementation of logger using adapter pattern, how to implement and add custom SMTP appender & configuration.

Creating a Console Based Window for Debugging

21 Apr 2019 by Michael Haephrati

This article will show how to selectively add a Console window to Win32 or even MFC programs for debugging purposes.

Debugging NHibernate: Session Management

13 Oct 2011 by Sebastian Solnica

This article explains the details of the session management in NHibernate. It shows you how, using the debugger, you may examine session properties and check if it's opened and closed in a desired way.

BaseLib.Tracer: Tracing Done Right

31 Mar 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Near real time, multi threading safe tracing for any .NET technology

Secure Remote Debugging

4 Dec 2020 by PachisiaVikas

Know the steps to quickly set up a secure remote debugging environment and boost your productivity

Debug multiple .NET Core projects concurrently running on different docker containers in VS 17

11 Jun 2017 by Khairul Islam Sujon

Debugging multiple .NET core projects running on docker containers.

A tiny application to launch a suspended Process

24 Jul 2011 by hofingerandi

A tiny application to launch a process suspended to allow, e.g., attaching a remote debugger.

Hacking with Windbg - Part 2 (Minesweeper)

5 Jun 2023 by Sarthak S

Assembly inspection and hacking with windbg

Useful Tools for Angular JS Developers

18 Aug 2016 by M,AqibShehzad

The most demanding framework can ease the life of a developer as it streamlines creating dynamic views in web applications.