As a part of Parallel computing initiative at Microsoft, we just released Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5 Community Technology Preview (CTP) which can be downloaded from here . Also, at MSDN, there is new section dedicated to ideas, technology...

Just now, I found a trick in Visual Studio 2005 to debug pointers in better way. You can ',n' in watch window where 'n' is number of elements to display. I think following snapshot is self explanatory.. Stay tuned..

I hear this problem occasionally. Customers have COM/DCOM component on the system registered properly, they want to enable DCOM on their component (to access the component over the network!). They need to modify the permissions for their component, for...

Here is a list of few interesting command-line parameters and their mapping to interactive commands in windbg.. PS: Taken from "Advanced Windows Debugging" (the best debugging book, I have ever come across!!).. Go grab your copy! Stay tuned..

I was looking for a way to install windbg as postmortem debugger so that everytime any process crashes or exits unexpectedly, windbg is launched automatically and I can take a look at whats happening there! Windbg has special command line option for installing...

Yet another debugging challenge. Imagine a situation where you get a memory dump from customer and need modules (DLL, EXE, OCX etc.) to further debug.. (.NET modules can be used to look at source code by reverse engineering..) SOS.dll is at the rescue...

Yet another debugging challenge.. The problem is, we want to debug the startup code for an application which is run by some other application! e.g. I will open a console (cmd.exe) which in turn opens calc.exe and I want to debug the initial calc.exe code...