Debug Monitoring Tool

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In Building a recipe application using Vista and .NET 3.0 (Part IV: ThumbnailProvider interface) I reference the DBMon.exe tool, and state that it is located in the Windows SDK, however, as of the lastest Windows SDK: Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista™ (released 3/22/07), DBMon no longer ships in the SDK. I was unable to find it in any other Microsoft release.

In my search I found this tool that very nicely replaces DBMon: DebugView v4.74 (by SysInternals.) This tool has the same basic functionality, plus many, many more features, such as the abilty to connect to remote machines, persisting sessions to disk, filter entries, and capture from many debug sources.

It is available here on the Microsoft.com TechNet site: (published 11/27/07)