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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:26 PM

Breaking changes in ICorDebug from 1.1 to 2.0.

Here are some random notes about specific ICorDebug breaking changes between .NET v1.1 (Everett) and .NET 2.0 (Whidbey). (I came across these as I was cleaning out old documents in preparation for my upcoming move). This would have been more timely 2
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:25 PM

Things that what work in Native-debugging that don't work in Interop-debugging.

Interop-debugging (mixed-mode) is managed + native debugging combined. Well, sort of. Native and managed debugging have very different paradigms. Native debugging tends to own the whole process, while managed debugging tends to require control of the
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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:03 PM

Tips for writing an Interop Debugger

I've had a growing number of people inquire about how to write an interop-debugger with ICorDebug. I strongly advise anybody considering writing an interop-debugger to reconsider for reasons listed here . However, for those who can not be dissuaded, and
Posted by jmstall | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:27 AM

You don't want to write an interop debugger.

I've had a growing number of people inquire about how to write an interop-debugger with ICorDebug. My goal here is to discourage you from doing that. (This reminds me of one of my college classes. On day one, the acting-Prof launched into a great sermon
Posted by jmstall | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:27 AM

Why can't you detach in interop-debugging?

Matt Pietrek noticed you can't detach while interop-debugging (aka " mixed-mode ") in VS. Short answer: this is a limitation of the CLR / ICorDebug. Longer answer follows... Some history : Interop-debugging is managed + native debugging simultaneously
Posted by jmstall | 8 Comments
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:09 AM

Out-of-band events and Mixed-mode debugging

Interop-debugging splits all debug events into "In-band (IB) " and "Out-of-band (OOB)". Inband events are the good ones: at an inband event, the debuggee is stopped and you can use the rest of the ICorDebug API normally to do inspection and other things
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Friday, January 28, 2005 12:24 AM

What is Interop-Debugging?

(This is an excerpt from an internal document I wrote explaining what is Interop-Debugging (aka Mixed Mode) and how does it work under the covers) General Debugging background. When a process is being debugged, it generates debug-events which a debugger
Posted by jmstall | 9 Comments
 
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