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Thursday, December 29, 2005 1:34 PM

Do you want to work on the CLR?

So we've just shipped VS2005 and CLR (.NET) 2.0. It's an awesome product, and we're gearing up for V3, which is also going to be great. My team, CLR Developer Services (includes Debugging services), is hiring a Software Developer Engineer . See here for
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Sunday, December 25, 2005 8:00 AM

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! (This post brought to you courtesy of Community Server's "publish at future date" option)
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:16 AM

A SymWriter sample is coming...

Reading managed PDBs is a common request, and the PDB-->XML sample does that nicely. I've had a lot of people asking me about how to write a PDB file (eg, an XML-->PDB tool). Part of the problem is that the managed wrappers across the symbol writer
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Saturday, December 17, 2005 10:52 AM

Check out CLR Profiler 2.0

FYI, in case you haven't heard from everybody else saying the same thing a month earlier, CLR Profiler for .NET 2.0 is available for free download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A362781C-3870-43BE-8926-862B40AA0CD0&displaylang=en
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 4:19 PM

Source Control for 1

It's obvious that a project with 10 people requires some form of Source Control. But I find source control still very valuable for even my 1-person pet projects, for similar reasons as to why it's valuable for larger projects: 1. Source-control lets me
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:56 PM

Don't rewrite opcodes in managed code.

Some tools work by replacing instructions in the target app. The tool may introduce a jump to some stub that will still execute the original instructions. This may work fine in native code, but you can't safely changed arbitrary instructions in JITed
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:34 PM

Using MC++ to wrap ICorDebug for .NET 1.1

MDbg and the managed wrappers around ICorDebug only work on .NET 2.0 (VS2005). I previously discussed why they won't work on 1.1 . One workaround to access ICorDebug from managed code in .NET 1.1 is to use MC++. In general, MC++ can be extremely useful
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Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:06 PM

Christmas blog decorations!

It's the Christmas season, we've decorated our house, and I figured I'd decorate my blog too! It's times like that I wish I knew more about HTML, CSS, and how Community Server allows formatting. Then I could have really have some fun with this. As is,
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:21 PM

Evil trick to render UI when stopped at a breakpoint.

Here's an EVIL trick to render your UI in a winforms app when you're stopped at a breakpoint. When managed-debugging, when you hit a breakpoint, all the managed threads stop . With a winforms app, the UI thread is managed and so it stops too. However,
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Monday, December 05, 2005 11:25 AM

"Visual Studio 2003 Mixed Mode Debugging Crash"

It's great that 2005 has shipped. I personally enjoy using it for my own pet projects and I'm very pleased. But shipping a V2 also means exposing versioning problems in the V1 design. Such an issue came up on the forums , which basically boils down to:
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:58 PM

MDbg sample is updated for VS2005 RTM

We've updated the MDbg source sample ( download here ) for Visual Studio 2005. This latest round of updates includes an integrated IL view , making the UI thread STA, fixing some build problems with VS2005 RTM and C# Express. It took me under 3 minutes
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