As you've probably already heard by now, VS2005 has shipped ! I've been using VS2005 for a while now (afterall, MDbg only runs on CLR 2. 0). Since I've been so involved in V2.0, I had forgotten how many people are still on V1.1 and V1.0. (update: fixed...

We do a thing called "Scenario Testing" where we run through common end-user scenarios to make sure they work from end to end. This is like the antithesis of unit testing. The reason is that often each single component does the right thing, but when you...

I personally think most API documentation is lame and either leaves critical behavior qualities unspecified, or don't comment when standard assumptions may be broken. One example is not documenting object lifespans . Another example is that you'd normally...

Shawn Farkas just let me know that the latest Iron Python 9.3 release breaks my Iron-Python Mdbg sample : So the 0.9.3 release breaks the mdbg extension – the fix is pretty quick though. When creating the streams to redirect stdin, out, and err...

What new feature requests do you want in the managed debugging services? In other words, if you could spend $100 on the following debugger-related items, how would it break down: 1) Support for debugging a managed dump file (without needing SOS) 2) Data...

You may have noticed the web page layout of my blog is now different. My reasoning was that it actually renders better this way. I include a lot of tables. In the old layout, there were two sidebars: one on the left and one on the right. If the width...

Here's how the managed symbol API fits into the overall symbol-store / PDB picture, courtesy of Steve Steiner and Curtis Man. There's a basic uniform low level storage for both managed and native symbols. The low-level API is private, and then there are...

Tim Stall writes a .Net blog for .Net Developer’s Journal ( http://timstall.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com ), which I'd like to recommend (you'll notice I've linked him over on the 'links' section). Whereas my blog is very low level and focuses mostly on...

When you hit a managed-breakpoint while managed-only debugging, only the managed threads are stopped. So threads that are not running managed code can continue to run and won't stop unless they hit managed code. If a thread was in managed code but called...

From the CLR perspective, ASP.Net is just another managed application. You can just attach MDbg to it and start debugging. While this works, it has some limitations: You need to: 1) make sure ASP.Net is deployed and started (since MDbg can only attach...

Several people have asked how managed debugger tools can print more details about an exception, such as its message string. Just printing that an exception of type "BadArgumentException" was thrown is a nice start. Managed Exceptions are associated with...

Visual Studio supports "Remote Debugging" ( Gregg talks about that a lot here ), which is the ability for the debugger and debuggee to be on different machines. It turns out the CLR Debugging services don't provide any explicit support for remote debugging...