Ever begin debugging a Windows Form to have the form close suddenly without the debugger alerting you to the exception? Or have you ever been stepping through the Form_Load event handler (or a method called by the Form_Load event handler) in a WPF application...

With Visual Studio 2010 came the release of Visual Studio .NET 4.0. .NET 4.0 adds a lot of great features and new capabilities; however with .NET 4.0 came a new 4.0 debug engine in Visual Studio 2010 (so there are now two managed debug engines, 2.0/3...

It has been well publicized that Visual Studio 2010 introduced the ability to debug dumps of managed processes in mixed mode (as opposed to the old days of native debugging + SOS in the Immediate Window ). The one fact about this new feature that often...

Today I’m going to introduce a plug-in for Visual Studio (still in beta) that helps to speed up finding concurrency bugs in multi-threaded applications. Example of a concurrency bug Consider an application that has two threads (“Thread A” and “Thread...

Many of you may be seeing an issue where your console windows won't close after you stop debugging. The symptoms of this issue include: · The console application does not terminate as expected after you stop debugging · The console windows can be...

In the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 we’re going to be rolling out a very cool new feature called IntelliTrace to enhance and expand the Visual Studio debugger experience. In a nutshell, IntelliTrace is a black box for your debugging experience...

Causes We have received numerous reports of Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 hanging while debugging. The two most common causes identified for this were a bug in IntelliTrace and an Internet Explorer 8 bug when debugging web applications. IntelliTrace Hang You...

What is a dump and how is it useful? A dump is a snapshot of an application at the point in time the dump is taken. It shows what was executing, what modules are loaded, and if saved with heap contains a snapshot of what was in the application’s...

If you are running msvsmon on a Win7 machine and are seeing the following error message when attempting to remote debug: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Error while trying to run project: Unable to start...