Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

Some tips for P/invoke

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:41:07 GMT

Here are some tips I've learned the hard way after wrapping some nasty things into managed code (including

MDBG ver 2.1 released

Mithun Shanbhag's Weblog — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:48:41 GMT

Today we released the latest version of the managed debugger - MDbg. For the past few days, we've been

Mdbg (C# debugger in C#) source sample updated

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:07:47 GMT

We've just updated the MDbg sample! This is a full source sample for building a managed debugger in C#.

Experiences with FxCop and wrapping the native debug API

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:55:01 GMT

I'm writing some managed wrappers for the native-debugging API (I expect they'll eventually become part...

re: Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

Mike Stall - MSFT — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:12:42 GMT

The wrappers are in C# - the marshalling in this case is actually pretty easy. MC++ can definitely be great for wrapping more complex things. I suggested using that for an debugger that wanted to wrap V1.1 IcorDebug. (MDbg only works on V2)

In fact, you could even compile MC++ to pure IL and then decompile it (ildasm / reflector) to C#.

re: Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

Russ Osterlund — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:01:48 GMT

Very nice. Are you trying to push PEBrowse Interactive out of business? - :o)

Are you using managed C++ or C# for your wrappers? I have found it to be trivial to use managed C++ in scenarios where there is a wealth of headers available. And with a little more work one can create a DLL that will interface with both managed projects in the IDE and native only applications.

re: Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

Sammer V — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:39:22 GMT

Super, Cross platform native debugger in managed code is great news.

I'm working on a Debugger for Java(Sorry!! but they deserve a good debugger too) in C#. Basic architecture is similar to Mdbg(simply because its awesome)
Debug API is almost (!) ready,
I was wondering about using your managed wrappers to provide JNI(Java native interface) debugging(same as Interop debugging in .NET, Native dlls are loaded into JVM and can be called from Java class) functionality as well.

Is it possible to release a pre-alpha version or something? I'm not being pushy here.

Interesting Finds: July 6, 2006

Jason Haley — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:17:27 GMT

re: Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

DebugLover — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:53:10 GMT

Sooner would be nicer as it allows me to move away from my current 100% non-managed way of doing things.

re: Working on managed wrappers for Native Debugging API

Mike Stall - MSFT — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:57:12 GMT

DebugLover - not sure yet. We can release the mdbg sample out-of-band of shipping the .NET product, so it could be arbitrarily soon.
I'm going as quickly as I can :)
do you have some immediate need; or are you just curious?