Gooey Bugs

Create an Object ID to keep track of an object while debugging...

Keyboard navigation and transparency with Enhanced DataTips...

Create a one-step operation to attach to a process If you find your debugging session typically involves attaching to a specific process you can save yourself some time in VS 2005 by creating a macro to do it for you. Choose Tools->Macros...

Use tracepoints to log execution flow and even modify it!...

It's been a very long time since I blogged about digital photography and yet I noticed that my recent debugger blogs have been appearing on the Digital Photography Community . So, rather than fight the fight I would need to do to get filtering of my debugger...

Moving tracepoints and breakpoints around...

Noisy breakpoints!...

Enhanced DataTips have a context menu...

Making native array viewing easier with Enhanced DataTips I'm back from vacation, and have a new found respect for people (mostly US wives/women, I presume) that slave all day over preparing a Thanksgiving meal and then cleaning it all up. Yep, I did...

Manage your breakpoints via a group names...

Use format specifiers or type-casting in Enhanced Datatips....

Spending the week on vacation. I'll return with more tips next week! Happy Thanksgiving!

Given that my job here at MS is that of Debugger UI guy, I thought it would be nice to regularly post some of my favorite (or other people's favorite) tips, tricks and tools I either use, or have written. Since these days I'm a regular user of Visual...