As mentioned in my first post in this series, debugging multi-threaded applications can be challenging. This installment talks about how to determine which of your application's threads are calling potentially threading sensitive methods. Using Visual...

Naming your application's threads can make debugging multi-threaded applications quite a bit simpler, especially if you have more than a couple of threads. Thread names can be set in code as shown below: // set the current thread's name Thread.CurrentThread...

Today's recommended reading installment takes us back to 1993 and Steve Maguire's excellent book: Writing Solid Code (Microsoft Press, ISBN: 1-55615-551-4). This book contains an excellent collection of insights on how to make your code more robust and...

Multi-threaded code can be challenging to write and debug. Today, I'd like to spend some time talking about one of the most common issues when writing multi-threaded code... deadlocks. Example deadlock To begin, let's examine an example of the "classic...

Have you ever been debugging and found yourself looking at the wrong source code? Typically, this happens to me when I just hit the escape key at the dialog prompting me for the source file. I was recently asked how to reset the source code association...

Yesterday, I was talking with one of the folks here and I learned something about Visual Studio. We were looking at some code and he selected a line, clicked a button, on the toolbar, and the line was commented out. I asked him what he just did and he...

Sometimes, it's the little things that make a big difference to my productivity. One of those little things is the addition of Set Next Statement (a.k.a. set instruction pointer / setip) support in the .NET Compact Framework v2. If you are not familiar...