Programming tidbits: store & retrieve

Event Tracing for Windows is the standard way to trace used by all features of Windows. Like the article Improve Debugging And Performance Tuning With ETW explains, ETW is “a general-purpose, high-speed tracing facility provided by the operating system. Read More...

Windows Error Reporting (WER) monitors and collects information on crashes and hangs on Windows platforms newer that Windows XP. The information collected can be sent to a server for investigation (read more in my previous WER article ). When creating Read More...

There are situations when we want to look closely at a process that is running in production environment – when a crash happens or when it just behaves badly (consumes too much memory, too much CPU, it hangs etc). There are multiple tools that can tell Read More...

I sometimes hear people complain that they tried to open a dump file in windbg , but couldn’t get sos running. First, make sure that you are loading the dump with the corresponding debugger – open an x86 dump with an x86 debugger and an x64 one with the Read More...

I wrote a simple C++ program that removes the duplicate spaces in a string. The function doing the work is RemoveDupSpaces : char * RemoveDupSpaces( char *s) { char *a = s; char *b = s; while (*a != '\0' ) { while (*a != ' ' && *a != '\0' ) *b++ Read More...

Attaching a debugger to a service/application in a different logon session might be a little tricky. Every time a successful authentication occurs on the machine, a new logon session is created. So, when you log on interactively => the system creates Read More...