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Sunday, March 05, 2006 12:44 PM

What does a debugger author need to do to support func-eval?

I've mentioned func-eval (aka property eval) is evil for end-users; but it's also evil if you want to write a debugger that uses func-eval. For example, let's say you're writing your own managed debugger and you have a watch window, and you want to eval
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:06 AM

What to do with a feature that only works 90% of the time?

Imagine when you're designing a feature if there was an operation that was very useful 90% of the time; but the other 10% of the time it was provably and innately unsafe (either crashed, deadlocked, or gave back garbage). By "innately unsafe", I mean
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:49 PM

Rules of Funceval

Funceval (aka "Function Evaluation" or "Property Evaluation") is the ability to inject some arbitrary call while the debuggee is stopped somewhere. A debugger commonly uses funceval to run ToString() and property getters. I want to describe when it is
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