Public Service Announcement: You may have noticed that trying to evaluate members using C#'s 'base' keyword in the debugger still calls the derived members. (The 'base' keyword lets you access base class member implementations from within a derived class...

I often publish little samples in this blog based off MDbg (which generally show off the debugging services in some way; such as app to convert Pdb-->XML , or this harness to print all exceptions in an app ). I generally call these apps "harnesses...

I need to rant: If one more person brags about their class library saying "you don't have to write a line of code to do <insert cool thing here>, you just need to give it 8 pages of machine generated XML", I'm going to scream. My perception is that...

I've gotten some questions about how appdomains are handled at the ICorDebug level. Here's some random trivia (this is kind of like the AppDomain version of the random-ICDThread trivia post I did earlier): Breakpoints : An ICorDebugBreakpoint is...

A while ago, I wrote a sample tool to gather snapshots of callstacks . After great delay, I've posted source here . Also, check out Managed Stack Explorer , which is a more polished tool that has similar snap-shot gathering behavior complete with GUI...

Thomas Lai is now blogging! Thomas works on the CLR Debugging Services, along with other bloggers Rick and myself and some non-bloggers too. Thomas owns the MDA infrastructure , among other things, and has a great practical post about about how to...

I just passed a milestone: I just had my first experience where I desperately needed an answer and search pointed me right to a blog entry that immediately answered it. In my case, I needed to know the amd64 calling convention , and MSN search pointed...

You've no doubt heard that " Bill Gates said Thursday he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. " It will obviously be sad to see Bill transition...

You've probably already read about the MSDN Wiki Beta on Soma's blog . You can now add information to MSDN content for Visual and the .NET SDK. I think this is great, and I hope it expands to the rest of MSDN. Some of the things that I particularly like...