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Finding crash information using the MAP file Updated: 5 Jan 2003 Finding crash information using the MAP file: how to create and read the file VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Wouter Dhondt	4.84
Debug Tutorial Part 1: Beginning Debugging Using CDB and NTSD Updated: 19 Mar 2004 Learn how to debug problems in software. Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, ASM, Beginner	Toby Opferman	4.84
Debug Tutorial Part 3: The Heap Updated: 20 Mar 2004 Introduction to the heap. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, ASM, Intermediate	Toby Opferman	4.83
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 1 Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.83
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 4 Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.82
Post-Mortem Debugging Your Application with Minidumps and Visual Studio .NET Updated: 6 Mar 2002 This article describes how minidumps work, how to make your application create them when it crashes, and how to read them back with Visual Studio .NET. VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Andy Pennell	4.82
Debug Tutorial Part 2: The Stack Updated: 28 Mar 2004 Introduction to the most important ally in the fight against bugs, the stack. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, ASM, Intermediate	Toby Opferman	4.80
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 3 Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.79
An introduction to debugging in MSVC++ using Pseudoregisters Updated: 24 Nov 2002 Explanation of the debugger pseudoregisters like @ERR, @TIB VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Beginner	Wouter Dhondt	4.77
Debug Tutorial Part 4: Writing WINDBG Extensions Updated: 24 Mar 2004 This tutorial we will attempt to write a simple debug extension. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, ASM, Advanced	Toby Opferman	4.75
XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 2 Updated: 19 Oct 2003 Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.75
Toggle hardware data/read/execute breakpoints programmatically Updated: 23 Jul 2008 Simple code to introduce a hardware breakpoint mechanism. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, C++, C++/CLI, C, Windows, Win32, Win64, Architect, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced, SysAdmin	Michael Chourdakis	4.72
How to determine corresponding source line from offset number Updated: 22 Jul 2003 If you know offset number within exe file, you can specify where it corresponds in source file VC6, NT4, VS6, Dev, QA, Advanced	eymre	4.71
A tool to view a LIB Updated: 15 Jan 2005 Useful tool to view functions in a library (.LIB) file and export them to a header (.H) file. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, eVC 3.0, VS6, eVC 4.0, Win Mobile, Mobile, Dev, QA, Advanced	Ramanan.T	4.70
Surviving the Release Version Updated: 16 Jul 2001 Learn about the issues and differences between Debug and Release builds. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.69
Is The Debugger Attached? Updated: 22 Oct 2001 Take different actions depending on whether a debugger is attached to your process. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, QA, Advanced	Tim Chew	4.69
Multiple Performance Timer Updated: 2 Jan 2003 Time multiple parts of your code and display accumulated results VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Jon	4.68
Debug Tutorial Part 5: Handle Leaks Updated: 8 May 2004 Learn how to debug handle leaks in Windows. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, ASM, Intermediate	Toby Opferman	4.67
Debug Tutorial Part 6: Navigating The Kernel Debugger Updated: 6 Aug 2004 Learn the basics of the kernel debugger. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, Dev, QA, ASM, Advanced	Toby Opferman	4.67
Debugging Release Mode Problems Updated: 9 Dec 1999 A classic article on how to debug your release build applications VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Beginner	Keith Rule	4.59
Remote Debugging in MSVC++ 6.0 - Step by step in the OnPaint message handler Updated: 24 Jan 2002 This article how to setup the remote debugging capatibilities of Visual C++ 6.0. With just a few steps and an extra machine (of course!) I´ll show how can you step into the OnPaint message handler. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Mauricio Ritter	4.58
Detailed memory leak dumps from a console app Updated: 21 May 2002 How to get path and line number info for memory leaks, in a console app VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	C^hris L^osinger	4.55
Windows Debuggers: Part 1: A WinDbg Tutorial Updated: 22 Mar 2004 This is the first part of a multipart tutorial on debugging using WinDbg. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C++/CLI, .NET, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Beginner	Saikat Sen	4.53
Implementing Effective Vulnerability Remediation Strategies Within the Web Application Development Lifecycle Updated: 10 Jul 2007 After a security assessment has been performed as part of the web application development lifecycle, it is important to understand how to address and fix any application vulnerabilities that are uncovered. C++, Windows, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Caleb Sima	4.50
Useful Debugging Macros Updated: 14 Dec 1999 A set of handy Debugging macro facilities without MFC VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	William E. Kempf	4.49
How to use memory dump to trace bug Updated: 9 Sep 2003 How to use memory dump to trace bug VC6, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Woodykk	4.47
Debug Toolkit Updated: 27 Mar 2000 A complete debug toolkit to add intelligent debugging capability to your application. VC6, NT4, VS6, Dev, QA, Advanced	Keith Westley	4.47
HTML logger - portable and thread-safe Updated: 3 Dec 2002 An article on using HTML formated log in your applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Stas Desyatnikov	4.46
DebugBreak and ASSERTs that work always anywhere Updated: 5 Apr 2005 Demonstrates how you can improve the standard DebugBreak and ASSERTs to make them work always. VC7.1, VS.NET2003, C, Windows, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Stas Kondratiev	4.45
Debug Tutorial Part 7: Locks and Synchronization Objects Updated: 7 Aug 2004 Learn the basics of debugging deadlocks and other issues. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, Dev, QA, ASM, Advanced	Toby Opferman	4.43
CSAStatusLog - status logger Updated: 17 Nov 1999 A very simple text logger that allows you to use printf-type formatting, with automatic application name and date stamping VC6, NT4, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	C^hris L^osinger	4.41
Code that debugs itself Updated: 17 Feb 2005 A set of macros for detecting and reporting critical errors, combined with a technique of writing solid code. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Andrew Schetinin	4.38
Napkin Updated: 12 Mar 2006 A simple logging library using generic object to streams VC7.1, VC8.0, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev, QA, Intermediate	mb2sync	4.38
Exception handling in JNI Updated: 7 Feb 2007 An article on Exception handling in JNI C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	jafarmlp	4.33
CConsole - a simple console for debug output Updated: 19 Aug 2002 Show debug information in an easy to handle console VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Greeeg	4.32
Navigate your TRACE outputs Updated: 28 Jul 2001 Extended TRACE macros with easy source navigation VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Wolfgang Busch	4.29
Make the debugger show the contents of your custom IList class Updated: 6 Aug 2008 How to make the debugger give the same special treatment to your custom IList as it gives to List. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, VS2008, C#, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced	Qwertie	4.27
How to Use Microsoft's Driver Verifier to Interpret Unanalyzable Crash Dump Files Updated: 19 Nov 2008 An article that explains how to use the Driver Verifier tool to analyze crash dump files. Windows, Dev, Advanced, SysAdmin	logicchild	4.27
CProfile - A simple class to do code profiling and tracing Updated: 1 May 2003 This simple class allows to profile code sections and optionally print time elapsed and tracing strings in different formats. VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Hernán Di Pietro	4.27
Debugging Custom DLLs with InstallShield for MSVC 6.0 Professional Updated: 29 May 2003 This article explains how to develop, integrate, and debug custom DLLs using InstallShield's CallDLLFx function. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, ATL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Brian Davis	4.23
[Debugging] - Symbols Updated: 21 Jun 2007 Setting up a Microsoft Symbol Server VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Jonathan [Darka]	4.10
Debug With Apps Displayed on Secondary Monitor Updated: 29 Nov 2006 Here's some code that will automatically start your app on a secondary monitor if it's compiled with debug info. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VS2005, VS6, Windows, Dev, QA, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	4.04
Creating a console for your MFC app's debug output Updated: 17 Jun 2000 How to send debugging output to a console in a MFC application VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Beginner	matthias s.	3.95
A Class for Creating a Trace Log Updated: 17 Nov 1999 VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Robert Pittenger	3.90
Debug logging with STL stream operators Updated: 20 Jul 2008 An easy to use debug logger, implemented via a custom stream buffer. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VS2008, C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, Visual Studio, MFC, STL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Johann Anhofer	3.87
Logging process performance info Updated: 11 Apr 2002 This article contains a small tool which use PDH functions to obtain process info/performance data. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Andrei Iarantsev	3.83
Using the Output Window in DevStudio Updated: 23 Feb 2004 How to load arbitrary text into the DevStudio Output Window so you can double-click on a line VC6, VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Beginner	Harold Bamford	3.79
Performance meter and memory leaks detector Updated: 5 Dec 2001 This article describes how to monitor program heap for memory leaks VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Andrei Iarantsev	3.79
AMLog, easy logging Updated: 8 Jun 2002 A small utility to make easy logging to files VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Anders Molin	3.74
Very easy to use logger for ATL/MFC/NonMFC applications Updated: 2 Jan 2004 Very easy to use logger for ATL/MFC/NonMFC applications. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, ATL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Gavriloaie Andrei	3.70
Debugging and testing made easy. (Part 1) Updated: 9 Mar 2003 Some macros and tips to take the air out of bugs, and classes to make unit testing painless and simple. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Kumarpal Sheth	3.59
Analyzing Windows Crash Dump Files Updated: 31 Oct 2008 An article that focuses on how to analyze a crash dump file. Windows, Intermediate	logicchild	3.57
A Handy Debugging Macro for Switch Statements Updated: 26 Nov 1999 A macro to help alert you if unreachable is ever reached VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Beginner	Michael Dunn	3.41
Debugging & Testing Tips for Win9x Updated: 13 Aug 2000 Debugging & Testing Tips from the Trenches VC6, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Keith Rule	3.39
Debugging C++ public member variable modifications / accesses Updated: 20 Nov 2006 A trick to use operator overloading to debug the public member variable modifications / accesses C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Vishal B Jadhav	3.37
Printf() debugging in a console window from within an ActiveX control Updated: 30 Aug 2005 Creating a console window from within an ActiveX control. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Stephen Muccione	3.26
Debugging Technique: Logger for making logs in many ways at once Updated: 29 Dec 2004 This logger can be configured to produce log output using various output types. VC7.1, Windows, Visual Studio, STL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	DevRanjeet	3.14
Memory leak finder Updated: 10 Oct 2008 Custom memory handler with memory leak reporting and no-mans-land checking. Leaks are reported with call stack of allocation. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Erik Rydgren	3.05
CTracerST v1.0 Updated: 17 Jun 2000 A flexible trace class for consistent application debug traces. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Advanced	Davide Calabro	3.05
Quick start to using WinDbg Updated: 18 Dec 2007 Step by step instructions for a newbie on how to use WinDbg. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, VS2008, C++, C++/CLI, C, Windows, Win32, Win64, Visual Studio, MFC, STL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Ganik	2.80
Test Runner Application Updated: 2 Nov 2005 A framework for performing unit tests. VC6, NT4, VS6, VB 6, ATL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Jerry Edens & Doug Eveland	2.67
Testing for Programmers - Unedited Updated: 24 Sep 2007 This article provides basic information about software testing for programmers in a beginner’s level. C++, Windows, Dev, QA, Beginner	NinethSense	2.64
Visual C++ pow function not working the sixth time !! - Unedited Updated: 31 Jul 2006 A strange scenario that leads to not functioning floating point operations C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Dr. Smartee	2.48
Extended Debug macros Updated: 13 Jun 2001 A set of debug macros for checking expressions that work in VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Jungsul Lee	2.25
Auto Memory Dump on Crash of an Application - Unedited Updated: 26 Feb 2004 auto crash dump and manually walking through the stack Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	hichetu	2.08
Software Debugging Process: How it goes and how to improve it - Unedited Updated: 12 May 2003 The process of debugging: formalization & improvement C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	diamant	1.44
First Step to Make a simple debugger class - Unedited Updated: 28 Oct 2007 This class gives you idea to make your own debugging class VC6, VC7, VC7.1, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	DharmeshC	1.44
Debugging output through network - Unedited Updated: 7 Mar 2006 Send debugging output through UDP protocol C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	_duk_	1.20

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Title / Updated	Author	Score
Add Crash Reporting to Your Applications with the CrashRpt Library Updated: 19 Mar 2003 This article describes how to use the CrashRpt library to generate crash report for your application that can be debugged using WinDbg or VS.NET. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Mike Carruth	4.83
Simple trace format tips Updated: 4 Oct 2000 A simple way to format your TRACE statements so double clicking takes you directly to the source code. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Beginner	Audrius Vasiliauskas	4.68
Who deleted my pointer? Updated: 22 Apr 2003 Locating your dangling pointer with overloaded new and delete operators VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	k4_pacific	4.65
Useful macros for pointer verification Updated: 20 Oct 2002 A few macros to validate pointers passed to functions. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, PocketPC 2002, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Andreas Saurwein Franci Gonçalves	4.34
Get Started: Debugging Memory Related Issues in .Net Application Using WinDBG and SOS - Unedited Updated: 22 Apr 2008 Kick Start Using WinDBG and SOS C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, .NET, Win32, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	sonal.india	4.28
Using an output stream for debugging Updated: 24 Nov 2001 How to create an output stream that writes to the debug terminal. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Sven Axelsson	4.14
Thread-safe logger with automatic removing log messages from release version. Updated: 13 Sep 2000 A log file class for multi-threaded applications. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Vlad Kirienko	3.95
Gone With The Wind Updated: 17 Jun 2007 Dealing with the designer when everything disappears C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Muammar©	3.76
Catching memory leaks Updated: 4 Oct 2000 How catch memory leaks with very little effort VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Beginner	Audrius Vasiliauskas	3.55
User Friendly Exception handling Updated: 5 Aug 2003 How to handle exceptions in release builds in a user friendly fashion VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	R. Walker	3.50
Debugging Classic ASP ( VBScript ) in Visual Studio 2008 - Unedited Updated: 23 Aug 2008 Step by step, how to set your project up so you can debug a site written in Classic ASP VBScript using Visual Studio 2008. VS2005, VS2008, VBScript, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Rock Webcast	3.00
Getting pragmatic with warnings Updated: 25 Mar 2002 An article on dealing with unwanted Build warnings VC6, VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Beginner	bryce	2.96
Memory leaks dumper with user defined dump information Updated: 11 Apr 2007 How to add user defined dump information for memory leaks VC6, VC7, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev, QA, Advanced	Sergey Osenny	2.50
Show me exceptions - Unedited Updated: 22 Sep 2008 How to hide your exceptions in a presentations and get them back when developing. WinXP, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev	Muammar©	2.31
Solving a nasty bug in VS2005 Crystal Reports - Unedited Updated: 1 Apr 2008 Crystal Reports producing odd results? Dont do what we did! VS2005, C#, VB, XML, SQL, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	BruceL	1.27

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Title / Updated	Author	Score
Fast, low latency and non-synchronizing trace class Updated: 16 Apr 2004 An article about a ready to use trace class specialized for multithreaded programming. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev, QA, Advanced	Tim Hagemann	4.67
Extended Trace: Trace macros for Win32. Updated: 23 Apr 2001 Trace macros that provide messages with source code link, run-time callstack information, and function prototype information with parameter values. VC6, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Zoltan Csizmadia	4.59
Getting around the need for a vararg #define just to automatically use __FILE__ and __LINE__ in a TRACE macro Updated: 9 Jan 2003 Ever wrote #define TRACE, #define TRACE1, #define TRACE2, etc., just so you could use the __FILE__ macro and printf style formatting in a macro at the same time? VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Paul Mclachlan	4.54
Small and Simple TRACE/Log support for your Windows application Updated: 22 Feb 2006 This header file will provide you with the smallest and simplest way to log some trace messages from your MFC application. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Win Mobile, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	suggam	4.50
Writing trace messages in multi-threaded C++ applications Updated: 27 Jan 2002 An easy-to-use utility that can be integrated into multiple programs NT4, Win2K, WinXP, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳	4.49
Advanced Logging for all kind of applications Updated: 23 Feb 2002 Simple to use classes for logging and tracing. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Alex Kucherenko	4.48
Function Calling Sequence Tracer Class Updated: 15 Aug 2003 A class to trace the sequence at which functions are called. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Mohamed Abdel-Monem	4.32
Yet Another Logging Library Updated: 2 Nov 2002 Message logging library VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Taka Muraoka	4.06
A Generic Approach to Debug Tracing and Logging Updated: 28 Mar 2008 A generic tracing library implementation. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, C++, C++/CLI, C, Dev, QA, Intermediate	maskisland	4.05
Runtime Trace Updated: 30 Mar 2003 Display trace messages at runtime from several running applications on different machines. VC6, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, ATL, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Bogdan Rechi	3.17
WPF Trace Client and TCP Trace Listener Updated: 2 Jan 2008 This article is about a Trace client to visualize and filter Trace messages and a TCP Trace listener. C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, XML, .NET, Dev, WPF, Intermediate	arthur zaczek	3.08
cout for MFC/Windows/Non Console applications Updated: 5 Oct 2000 A trace macro which traces to a new console of the Windows application. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Dhananjay Gune	3.00
Tracing Utility in C++ Updated: 3 Feb 2003 This article explains

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