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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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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.

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

by Maxim Kartavenkov

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

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Debugging

A C++ Code Function Tracing Class

U 9 Apr 2024 by PJ Arends

Trace your function calls to the Output window.

To tell if an assembly is compiled in debug or release mode in c#

4 Feb 2012 by Huisheng Chen

Using reflection to dynamically verify if an assembly is in debug or release compilation

Debug Ionic Android Application On Mobile Devices or Emulators

16 Sep 2015 by mudasser ajaz

How to debug ionic Android application in development phase

Self-debugger attach to process

14 Sep 2011 by Mauro Leggieri

SharePoint Debugging: Attach all w3wp.exe processes to debugger with single click

26 Feb 2012 by Raheel12345

How to attach all w3wp.exe processes to debugger with single click.

Console.log Object Display

14 Aug 2019 by DaveAuld

Object inspection with %O in the console output

The Pain and Anguish of DTS Script Debugging

26 May 2011 by #realJSOP

When all else fails, fire off some events and bask in the glow of the IDE's Progress tab.

Self-debugger attach to process

30 Sep 2011 by Daniele Rota Nodari

I was glad to integrate your code into my C# application.Actually, within the debugger windows, I can't recognize any human-readable reference to the calling process, but the function is working. :)So, for whoever may be interested, the following code is my C# 4 equivalent:using...

Enable Debugging in Twig Templates - Drupal 8

17 Oct 2019 by VipinMittal18

How to enable debugging in Twig templates - Drupal 8

TraceListener for Named Pipes

11 Jul 2011 by Kári Poulsen

Allows you to very easily see live trace output on any machine.

A Simple Stream Implementation for Debugging

9 Nov 2012 by mlzg4

This stream implementation is fast, thread-safe, easy to use, and very useful for debugging large distributed or concurrent projects.

Automatically Disappearing Dialog, Used to Provide VERIFY and ASSERT on ReactOS

8 Jan 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

Automatically Disappearing Dialog

Find the Commit which Broke the Test in Git

7 May 2021 by Marcell Lipp

Git used for debugging

Debugging VS 2010

20 Apr 2010 by elad2109

New feature I have recently found out-After toggle a breakpoint in VS2010 you can right click on it and change it to a tracepoint (only prints logs when access though it) or add filters for example: breaks the execution only for a specific thread.

Debug DirectShow

1 Jun 2010 by AndreBroz

How to debug DirectShow

See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer

24 Jan 2012 by Gil Yoder

Visual Studio 2010 has a new visualizer for WPF that exposes a dependency object's visual tree.

Macro to attach debugger to correct w3wp process.

16 Feb 2013 by Nitin_Garg

Macro to attach visual studio debugger to w3wp apppool hosting your webservice.

Learn How to Determine the Number of Bindings in Your Angular App

2 Feb 2015 by Michael Collins - Intervalia

Use the code below to determine the number of bindings of your Angular apps

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Advanced GIT Tutorial - How to Debug Your Code with GIT?

19 May 2020 by Marcell Lipp

A proof introduction to Git blame and Git bisect

Print DataTable to Console (and more)

9 Nov 2017 by yuvalsol

Print DataTable, DataView, DataSet, DataRow[] to Console, StringBuilder or Stream

Kernel-Mode Debugging in a VM using Visual Studio 2012

31 Aug 2013 by Michael Engstler

This tip is about how to setup Kernel-Mode Debugging in a VM using Visual Studio 2012.

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Let your application ask you to attach to a debugger rather than you do it manually

30 Nov 2009 by Sohel_Rana

Sometimes you need to debug an application in a point where it’s difficult to attach debugger manually. For applications which you can’t run directly from Visual Studio (say windows service), you usually use attach process to visual studio to debug. So if you have a windows service running (with...

ASP.NET MVC - Debugging your routes

16 Jun 2011 by Karthik. A

Debugging ASP.NET MVC routes simplified using "Route Debug"

Enable Debugging in Visual Studio when browsing silverlight in Firefox

29 Oct 2010 by shankeyshankey

Fast and easy memory leak detection

27 Jul 2011 by Octopod

An easy way to trap all the memory leaks of your application.

Why and How to Name Your Threads and Tasks

28 Apr 2018 by Eddy Vluggen

You've been taught to give every component and variable a descriptive name; why do most then don't do it for a thread, when it is easy and beneficial?

Utilizing Debug class in .NET

4 Apr 2011 by Adil Mughal

Demonstrate the functionality provided by Debug class in .NET

Visual Studio Slow Debugging and _NO_DEBUG_HEAP

23 Sep 2015 by Bartlomiej Filipek

By default, Visual Studio (up to VS 2013) uses additional debug heap that slows down applications, even in Release mode. Read what you can do about this.

Specifying Ports When Running Applications in Visual Studio

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This post will provide a short walk-through for handling and updating these areas of your application to gain more control over debugging, testing and running your applications through Visual Studio.

MS SQL Server - SQL Object Dependency Check

4 Dec 2011 by GuruprasadV

Check if dependency of a table are objects referenced by a stored proc. A system table with CTE can help to identify dependency quickly.

Debugging a Start of a Windows Service

22 Jun 2015 by Sebastian Solnica

This post is the second and final one dedicated to debugging .NET Windows services.

Pinning the variables/expressions while debugging

1 May 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

This feature may not seem useful initially, and might appear distracting you. But it is one of the very useful (new) features in Visual Studio 2010. You'll love it after using it for a while!While debugging, you typically put some variables in Watch Window (or use Locals, Autos etc). When...

Handling JavaScript Complexity

20 Nov 2015 by borchef

This is the introduction to a series of articles about Modulair JavaScript.

Fast and easy memory leak detection

26 Jan 2012 by Lakamraju Raghuram

For Visual Studio IDE we can detect leaks by using CRT debugger functions#define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC#include #include void main(){ // ...... // ...... _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();}This will dump leaks if any to the Output window. Check this link :...

Pin Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

6 May 2010 by TheyCallMeMrJames

When you hover over a variable with the debugger running you will see a thumbtack that allows you to pin the variable to the editor window. This is cool for a number of reasons.1) It is much easier to see changes to a set of variables in any kind of a loop construct. You can even pin...