Some of you might be wondering what is the use of a profiler. I am a good programmer and my application is running without any trouble. Why shall I use the profiler? Think of a scenario where you have developed an application which is going to be deployed...

1. Introduction 2. How it works : a. Events and Call Information b. Recordings - iTrace file c. Capturing Events d. Specify modules e. Intellitrace Window f. Navigation Bar g. Running the trace file 3. Tips...

You have a managed application. Let’s suppose a Winforms application in VC#. You want your application to launch the debugger automatically. For this purpose, you added in your program the line System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch(). When we run the...

You can run Procmon using command-line. 1. The following command-line will spawn procmon in Quiet mode(will not ask for any filter. It will collect all information). The procmon will start in the minimized window and also save the log in the file(abc...

In Visual Studio, System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute is added automatically by some of the code generators. You may face challenges while debugging the code because this attribute tells the debugger not to stop in the specifed method/class...

1. Introduction. Remote debugging is one of the most interesting features of Visual Studio and it has been greatly simplified in Visual Studio 2005. The purpose of this article is to discuss the basic functionality, configuration details, and troubleshooting...

How to generate PDB files for RELEASE build ==================================== We can genererate PDB(Program Data Base) files for RELEASE build also. Set “Project->Project Properties->Configuration Properties->Linker->Debugging...

Problem Description ================ When you try to debug a simple windows application in Visual Studio 2005, you get the following error : ---------------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio ---------------------------------- Unable to...

When we are working with Visual Studio IDE, sometimes we encounter issues related to intellisense. The main objective of this article is to provide some basic troubleshooting steps to overcome some of the issues. Lets first start with a basic understanding...