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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, 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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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 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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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:04 PM

Debugging LINQ to SQL queries using the Historical Debugger

I've covered the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger extensively in a few of the previous posts. In this post, I'll cover how the Historical Debugger makes debugging LINQ to SQL queries a lot more convenient. If you are trying to debug a LINQ to SQL
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Friday, July 10, 2009 11:58 PM

Managing Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010 using Breakpoint Labels

One of the new features that we've added to the Visual Studio 2010 debugger is the ability to manage breakpoints more effectively. You might say that the existing Breakpoints window is a fine tool for being able to manage your breakpoints. After all,
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:27 PM

Debugging WPF applications in Visual Studio 2010 using WPF Tracing

In an earlier blog , I described how to use the new WPF Visualizer to debug WPF applications in Visual Studio 2010. We've added another feature that further improves the debugging experience for WPF applications. The Visual Studio 2010 debugger can now
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:32 PM

New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints

This should make many C/C++ developers happy when Visual Studio 2010 becomes available (you can download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 right now). In previous versions of Visual Studio, one of the complains that we've received is that developers want to use
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Monday, June 29, 2009 9:01 PM

Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger

There are numerous ways to view variables in the Visual Studio debugger. You can use the Autos window, Locals window, Quick Watch, four different Watch windows, etc. In Visual Studio 2010, we've made it even easier to see the value of variables. Over
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