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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:31 AM

Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010

If you have written managed code that uses a COM object, then you are probably familiar with System.__ComObject . When a COM object lacks a Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW), the CLR provides a generic RCW which is an instance of the type "System.__ComObject".
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Monday, September 21, 2009 12:04 AM

Coverage of the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger

During the last couple of months, I've covered the Historical Debugger extensively. If you are interested in learning more about this new feature in Visual Studio 2010, the following blog entries should help you get started. An in depth look at the Historical
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Friday, September 18, 2009 8:48 PM

An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI)

In previous blogs, I have covered the Historical Debugger extensively and talked about many of the scenarios. In this post, I'll walk through another scenario where the Historical Debugger is very useful which is Load Testing. When loading testing an
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 5:41 PM

Troubleshooting common breakpoint problems in the Visual Studio debugger (Part I)

On the Visual Studio debugger team, one of the areas where we regularly receive feedback is when breakpoints don't work. Furthermore, some of the error messages that the debugger displays when a breakpoint fails are generic so it might be hard to diagnose
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Monday, August 31, 2009 6:48 PM

How to debug a 64-bit dump using the Visual Studio debugger

One of the questions that comes up about debugging dump files is how to debug a dump file that was created from a 64-bit process. The reason why this question comes up is because Visual Studio itself is a 32-bit application and therefore, cannot debug
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:09 AM

Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010

In a previous post , I explained how to use Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2010 to detect dead code. In that post, I described the following five Code Analysis rules in detail and how these set of rules form the basis for detecting dead code: Private
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:56 AM

Visualize project dependencies with the Team System 2010 Architecture Explorer

As early as Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio has supported the ability to see the dependencies between projects in a solution. However, the experience is somewhat clunky in that you can only see the dependencies one project at a time. In the example
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:11 AM

PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010

Software quality is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. At PDC 2009 this year, there is full day workshop on how to use Visual Studio Team System 2010 to develop high quality software . I'm really excited about this workshop since it covers a
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:08 PM

How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger

In a previous blog , I covered how to debug a LINQ to SQL query using the Historical Debugger. In this blog, I'll discuss using the Historical Debugger to debug an exception. The are a couple of reasons why the Historical Debugger is so useful when it
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Monday, August 03, 2009 5:43 PM

Catch string formatting bugs with Visual Studio Team System 2010

Formatting strings is a very common task in .NET development. Examples include formatting dates and currencies, composing a HTML response, creating error messages, etc. One of the downsides of string formatting is that if done incorrectly, you can end
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Friday, July 31, 2009 6:04 AM

Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis

Last weekend, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out why I wasn't hitting a breakpoint in a method. Admittedly, I wasn't very familiar with the code since I hadn't written it. It turned out that the method wasn't being called from anywhere, so
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:37 AM

Debugging 101: How to skip over code in the Visual Studio Debugger

One of the questions that comes up regularly on newsgroups is "How do I skip over a section of my code in the Visual Studio debugger?" The answer depends on the meaning of the word "skip" but in general, there are three ways that you
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:04 AM

Use UML Sequence Diagrams in Team System 2010 to reverse engineer your code

One of the new features that we have added in Visual Studio Team System 2010 is the ability to create a new UML Sequence Diagram as well as generate one from existing code. I'm not going to go into too much detail on what a UML sequence diagram is since
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:41 PM

Walkthrough: Measure the performance of your JScript code with Team System 2010

In Visual Studio Team System 2010, one of the new features that we have added to the Profiler is the ability to measure the performance of JScript code that runs in the browser. This means that if you have a web application that contains ASP.NET AJAX
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:52 PM

The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar)

In a recent Channel 9 10-4 video, Brian Keller introduced the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio Team System 2010. One of the features that he described in his video was the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) which he used to step back in the
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