Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » DeanMel   (RSS)
Friday, November 02, 2007 4:59 PM

Passive KITL to the rescue

I'm sure many of you have been in a situation where your device hangs during field testing. Or sometimes you are trying to track down a problem which only repros at a certain location. The best thing you can have in these situations is, of course, a live
Posted by deanmel | 3 Comments
Filed under: , , ,
Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:39 PM

Running Platform Builder 6 on Vista

There are a lot of people that afraid to switch of Vista because they are afraid that their stuff will not work. Well truth be told, I've been running Vista+VS2005_SP1+PB6 since March of this year and haven't had any major problems. The only two problems
Posted by deanmel | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:03 PM

Where did Callstacks go from the Hopper logs?

If you upgraded from an older version of Hopper to a more recent one, you probably noticed that the callstacks are gone from the Hopper logs. We made them optional for two reasons: 1. Printing out callstacks slowed down the run significantly 2. They did
Posted by deanmel | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, September 28, 2007 7:34 PM

Why my private binaries do not show up in the image?

Why my private binaries do not show up in the image? I've been asked this question too many times by now. Many partners when testing their private changes have to figure it out the hard way. The reason why your updated binary doesn't show up in the image
Posted by deanmel | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, September 21, 2007 1:23 AM

How to load mismatched PDBs in Platform Builder

I don't know how many times I wished Platform Builder had an option to load PDB files with timestamps that do not match my executable. This option was available for desktop users for decades. Windbg and other desktop debuggers can do it without problems.
Posted by deanmel | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:45 AM

How to get work done while building the tree

Over past several months I've noticed that when our partners come here onsite. They like to build Windows Mobile images on their laptops while trying to get other work done at the same time. The problem with that is when compiler, linker, etc. do their
Posted by deanmel | 5 Comments
Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:18 AM

KITL timeouts with USB Serial Part 2

In the first part we talked briefly about KITL timeouts. In this article we are going to give you a little bit more details and try to explain why it behaves the way it does. How did we run into this issue? It all started with Hopper (apparently Hopper
Posted by deanmel | 0 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:49 PM

KITL timeouts with USB Serial

Recently the JDP team investigated a group of KITL timeout failures. Each timeout occurred under similar conditions and seemed to be associated with a single bug. At first we were puzzled as to why we were seeing these failures on different devices with
Posted by deanmel | 1 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:49 AM

How to setup AppVerifier for "Always running" processes

AppVerifier is a very useful tool when it comes to finding memory leaks. It is relatively easy to configure if you have some understanding of how AKU's and PB work. There are pretty comprehensive instructions on MSDN found here . However if you need to
Posted by deanmel | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:56 PM

DevHealth's mysterious dup(d) type explained

If you run DevHealth on your devices you probably saw dup(d) on the page summary for a process or a dll. It looks something like this: === lap_pw.dll page summary: code=0[rom(C):0 ram(c):0] data r/o(R)=0 r/w=0[ro(r)=0 rw(W)=0 exe(E)=0 dll(D)=0 heap(H)=0]
Posted by deanmel | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
 
Page view tracker