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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:16 AM

Debugging Multi-Threaded Applications III - Thread Specific Breakpoints

As mentioned in my first post in this series, debugging multi-threaded applications can be challenging. This installment talks about how to determine which of your application's threads are calling potentially threading sensitive methods. Using Visual
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:05 PM

Debugging Multi-Threaded Applications II - Setting A Thread's Name Using The Debugger

Naming your application's threads can make debugging multi-threaded applications quite a bit simpler, especially if you have more than a couple of threads. Thread names can be set in code as shown below: // set the current thread's name Thread.CurrentThread.Name
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Monday, September 26, 2005 7:41 PM

Recommended Reading III

Today's recommended reading installment takes us back to 1993 and Steve Maguire's excellent book: Writing Solid Code (Microsoft Press, ISBN: 1-55615-551-4). This book contains an excellent collection of insights on how to make your code more robust and
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:17 PM

Debugging Multi-Threaded Applications I - Deadlocks

Multi-threaded code can be challenging to write and debug. Today, I'd like to spend some time talking about one of the most common issues when writing multi-threaded code... deadlocks. Example deadlock To begin, let's examine an example of the "classic"
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Friday, September 09, 2005 4:14 PM

Resetting the source code associations in the Visual Studio debugger

Have you ever been debugging and found yourself looking at the wrong source code? Typically, this happens to me when I just hit the escape key at the dialog prompting me for the source file. I was recently asked how to reset the source code association
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Friday, September 09, 2005 1:56 PM

Quick code commenting and uncommenting using Visual Studio

Yesterday, I was talking with one of the folks here and I learned something about Visual Studio. We were looking at some code and he selected a line, clicked a button, on the toolbar, and the line was commented out. I asked him what he just did and he
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:22 PM

Using Set Next Statement to test code paths

Sometimes, it's the little things that make a big difference to my productivity. One of those little things is the addition of Set Next Statement (a.k.a. set instruction pointer / setip) support in the .NET Compact Framework v2. If you are not familiar
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