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Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:05 AM

Debugger won't properly evaluate C#s base keyword

Public Service Announcement: You may have noticed that trying to evaluate members using C#'s 'base' keyword in the debugger still calls the derived members. (The 'base' keyword lets you access base class member implementations from within a derived class,
Posted by jmstall | 9 Comments
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:54 AM

How to build Mdbg apps

I often publish little samples in this blog based off MDbg (which generally show off the debugging services in some way; such as app to convert Pdb-->XML , or this harness to print all exceptions in an app ). I generally call these apps "harnesses"
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:19 AM

Rant: Xml is Code

I need to rant: If one more person brags about their class library saying "you don't have to write a line of code to do <insert cool thing here>, you just need to give it 8 pages of machine generated XML", I'm going to scream. My perception is that
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Monday, June 26, 2006 3:46 PM

Random ICorDebug trivia about debugging AppDomains

I've gotten some questions about how appdomains are handled at the ICorDebug level. Here's some random trivia (this is kind of like the AppDomain version of the random-ICDThread trivia post I did earlier): Breakpoints : An ICorDebugBreakpoint is AppDomain
Posted by jmstall | 2 Comments
Monday, June 26, 2006 2:10 PM

Source posted for snapshot tool

A while ago, I wrote a sample tool to gather snapshots of callstacks . After great delay, I've posted source here . Also, check out Managed Stack Explorer , which is a more polished tool that has similar snap-shot gathering behavior complete with GUI
Posted by jmstall | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:32 AM

Thomas Lai is now blogging!

Thomas Lai is now blogging! Thomas works on the CLR Debugging Services, along with other bloggers Rick and myself and some non-bloggers too. Thomas owns the MDA infrastructure , among other things, and has a great practical post about about how to deal
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Monday, June 19, 2006 2:32 AM

Saved by the blog

I just passed a milestone: I just had my first experience where I desperately needed an answer and search pointed me right to a blog entry that immediately answered it. In my case, I needed to know the amd64 calling convention , and MSN search pointed
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Friday, June 16, 2006 1:00 PM

Random thoughts on Bill G transition plans

You've no doubt heard that " Bill Gates said Thursday he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. " It will obviously be sad to see Bill transition
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:18 PM

MSDN Wiki

You've probably already read about the MSDN Wiki Beta on Soma's blog . You can now add information to MSDN content for Visual and the .NET SDK. I think this is great, and I hope it expands to the rest of MSDN. Some of the things that I particularly like:
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