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Windows RT devices are now available so I thought I’d do a few posts on debugging tools for Windows Store apps on Windows RT and the ARM assembly generated with Visual Studio 2012 native (C++) tools. Understanding ARM assembly is a useful skill for debugging...

Usually System.MissingMethodException exception is thrown when there is an attempt to dynamically access a method that does not exist. Recently we worked on few issues where we saw applications throwing System.MissingMethodException intermittently. In...

  If you find In an MFC Tabbed Application with a FormView,  the cursor focus switches to an expected control when the Tab is reactivated, please  be advised that the issue is due to a Design Flaw in MFC to handle Messages for a a ...

  Recently I worked with a developer who was developing an MDI Tabbed Style MFC application  and wanted to Activate the Last Activated Tab when the current Tab is closed. She was trying to use  the method CMDIFrameWndEx::EnableMDITabsLastActiveActivation...

Recently a colleague wrote an application which on purpose caused an access violation. He took a memory dump of the process when it access violated and checked the call stack. To his surprise he didn’t see a direct call stack which would point him...