I spent many years prior to coming to Microsoft doing "dangerous" things inside of DllMain. If you're a diagnostic tool developer, it's often the only reasonable place to take key actions that must occur as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the MSDN...

I haven't yet had a chance to play with these yet, but Vista includes new APIs for determining why a thread is blocked. That is, you can learn that thread 'A' is blocked on object 'X' which is owned by thread 'B'. Thread 'B' in turn in blocked on object...

Mr. DbgHelp just sent me this link: http://www.debuginfo.com/index.html I confess that I haven't read every article yet, but it looks chock full of good stuff for debugger nerds like myself. I especially like the article on " How to use DbgHelp...