Diagnostic, performance and debugging tools are very cool. The more tools available, the easier it tends to be to find and fix application issues. With Visual Studio 2005, several handy tools were added. I use the Remote Registry Editor and Remote File...

Being able to attach to a running process is a very powerful debugger feature. It is especially handy when the application is in the field. With the CorDbg debugger, formal attach to process support was not available when debugging .NET Compact Framework...

“Do bitmaps leak memory?” No, but without careful coding it could appear that they do. Read more here

In the previous parts of this series, I talked about getting started with MDbg and using the Device Emulator. Today, I would like to talk about how to use MDbg to control processes on the device being debugged. Read more here

With the addition of support for headless devices, it became apparent that we needed a means for capturing details about unexpected errors. It is not always feasible to run applications under a debugger, and not all error conditions occur with the consistency...

.NET Compact Framework v2.0 SP1 includes support for Windows CE 4.2 based devices. To date, Visual Studio 2005 does not provide managed 4.2 projects nor is there any support offerings for developing solutions targeted at 4.2 devices. The good news is...

By default, the Device Emulator uses DMA as it's transport for device to desktop communications. The MDbg command line debugger supports TCP/IP for device to desktop communications. To allow MDbg to be used with the Device Emulator, there are some additional...

With the release, last year, of version 2 of the .NET Framework SDK, a new command line debugger (MDbg) became available. MDbg is written in managed code and supports adding functionality via extension assemblies (DLLs). At the time we released version...

To make it easier to find the great information that the .NET Compact Framework team is publishing on their weblogs, we will be posting abstracts for selected posts to this site. These summaries will contain a portion of the original post and a link to...

Developers who wish to update the build of .NET Compact Framework v2 to SP1 with extended Visual Studio 2005 redistribution rights on their development PC can now do so with the .NET Compact Framework v2 SP1 patch located at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...