Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows

You get huge development advantages with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003—but you need a new bag of debugging tricks to take full advantage of them in today’s .NET and Win32 development worlds. Learn lethally effective, real-world application debugging techniques for .NET Framework 1.1 and Windows with this fully updated programming guide. Debugging expert John Robbins expands the first edition of his classic debugging book with all-new scenarios and bug-killing tools, tips, and techniques. You’ll see every .NET and Windows debugging scenario here—from XML Web services and Microsoft ASP.NET to Windows services and exceptions. Along with John’s expert guidance, you get more than 6 MB of his battle-tested source code—for the tools and tactics you need to ship better software faster!

Topics covered include:



Where bugs come from and how to think about solving them
Debugging during coding
Operating system debugging support and how Win32 debuggers work
Advanced debugger usage and .NET debugging with Visual Studio .NET
Advanced native code techniques with Visual Studio .NET and WinDBG
Extending the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment
Managed exception monitoring
Flow tracing and performance
Finding source and line information with just a crash address
Crash handlers
Debugging Windows services and DLLs that load into services
Multithreaded deadlocks
Automated testing
The Debug C run-time library
A high-performance tracing tool for server applications
Smoothing the working set
Appendixes: Reading Dr. Watson log files, plus resources for .NET and Windows developers

CD-ROM features:



6+ MB of professional-level source code samples written in Microsoft Visual C++, Visual C#, and Visual Basic .NET
Debugging Tools for Windows
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK
Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)