Debugging

debugging

Great Reads

by Giovanni Scerra

Patterns to prevent null reference exceptions

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

by David A. Gray

Historically, ETW has been portrayed as having a very steep learning curve, along the lines of the effort required to summit Everest. Realizing its potential value, I set about to reduce the effort to that required to summit Pike's Peak.

Debugging Live Systems

by Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

How to Use Symbol Server? (and Why You Really Like To Do It...)

by baruchl

How to setup .NET symbol server and enable production debugging without source code

Latest Articles

Debugging AI Code Running in a Docker Container

by Jarek Szczegielniak

In this article we use Visual Studio Code to edit and debug our increasingly complex code running inside a Docker container.

Find the Commit which Broke the Test in Git

by Marcell Lipp

Git used for debugging

Secure Remote Debugging

by PachisiaVikas

Know the steps to quickly set up a secure remote debugging environment and boost your productivity

Robust C++: Safety Net

by Greg Utas

Keeping a program running when it would otherwise abort

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Debugging

Much Ado About NULL

26 Feb 2015

Giovanni Scerra

Patterns to prevent null reference exceptions

Design

Dev

debugging

OOP

null

exceptions

patterns

Event Tracing for Windows: Reducing Everest to Pike's Peak

8 Jun 2017

David A. Gray

Debugging Live Systems

26 Aug 2020

Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

How to Use Symbol Server? (and Why You Really Like To Do It...)

13 Jan 2012

baruchl

How to setup .NET symbol server and enable production debugging without source code

Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio and SSMS

18 Feb 2016

Kuv Patel

Debug stored procedures in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.

Windows x64 System Service Hooks and Advanced Debugging

13 Feb 2013

nick.p.everdox

Working alongside Windows KPP (patchguard) and hooking system services

ASM

Windows

debugging

Visual Studio Loader With Arguments

24 Oct 2018

Mark Kruger

Visual Studio loader with arguments

Reference Source, dotPeek and Source Code Debugging

20 Jun 2014

Sebastian Solnica

Reference Source, dotPeek and Source Code Debugging

.NET

debugging

Digging Yourself Out of a Big Ball of Mud

23 Mar 2015

Duncan Edwards Jones

What to do (and how to do it) when confronted with a big ball of mud

debugging

legacy

architecture

How to Develop a Windows Driver Using a QEMU Virtual Device

4 Mar 2019

Apriorit Inc, Artem K.

A clear overview on how you can establish communication between a device and its driver

Nanomite and Debug Blocker for Linux Applications

15 Jul 2013

Apriorit Inc, Kotik Anton

Modern anti-debug techniques - Nanomites and Debug Blocker - are considered for Windows and Linux code

Debugging AI Code Running in a Docker Container

21 May 2021

Jarek Szczegielniak

In this article we use Visual Studio Code to edit and debug our increasingly complex code running inside a Docker container.

shell

Python

artificial-intelligence

Mdbg watch-trace Extension

27 Feb 2012

Sebastian Solnica

I wrote a simple extension for the MDbg debugger that adds a watch-trace (wt) command to its shell, allowing you to display and customize the method call trees. In this post, I’m going to show you how this extension was built and how it can be used.

CSS

11 Oct 2013

ASP.NET Community

Take control of your angle-brackets and optimize. Note: This article spans over the debugging tools for your CSS, JavaScript and other

How to Debug the Linux Kernel with QEMU and Libvirt

1 Mar 2019

Apriorit Inc, Sergii Kusii

And its modules during runtime

IP Relay for Visual Studio Mobile Device Web Development

16 Mar 2011

R%S

Enable access from mobile phone emulator to Visual Studio WebDev.WebServer listening on localhost

Robust C++: Safety Net

2 Nov 2020

Greg Utas

Keeping a program running when it would otherwise abort

10 More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

30 Dec 2012

Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

Anti-Debug Protection Techniques: Implementation and Neutralization

7 Apr 2016

Apriorit Inc, Kulchytskyi Oleg

Several approaches of anti-debug protection and some tips about how they are usually neutralized by reversers

C++

Windows

debugging

Debugging Multithreaded Code in Real Time!

3 Jul 2014

Peter Huber SG

Non blocking, multithreading safe tracing with only microseconds delays

10 Even More Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development

30 Dec 2012

Marius Bancila

This article proposes a list of even more debugging tips for native development with Visual Studio.

Finalizer Case Explained

28 Apr 2018

LiYS

Finalizer case explained

Beginner Guide to Page and Script Debugging with Chrome

27 Nov 2011

DaveAuld

A beginner introduction to the features of the Chrome Debugger

HTML

Javascript

debugging

How to Set Debugger to Auto Attach on Process Start

14 Apr 2016

Eyal Rosner

Easily setting debugger to attach a process on start

Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta

17 Apr 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Read the complete article to know more about it and gather knowledge on the debugging feature with a simple code walkthrough. At the end, don't hesitate to leave your feedback. Appreciate your Vote.

Source Indexing and Symbol Servers: A Guide to Easier Debugging

3 Oct 2010

Anthony Mushrow

Indexing and backing up your debug information files to help debug crashes from out in the wild

QS Part 1 - A New Approach to Unit and Integration Testing

10 Nov 2010

Simeon Sheye

Quality Gate One Studio is a testing framework that suggests a new approach to unit and integration testing.

Advanced Debugging in Visual Studio

23 Jan 2012

Pankaj Chamria

Learn the tips and tricks of advanced debugging in Visual Studio

Anti-Debug Time Plugin for OllyDbg

3 Jul 2013

Apriorit Inc, prepa1

This article describes the implementation of a simple tool to deal with debug blocking based on the function execution time

Dumping .NET Classes to Debug Output

22 Apr 2010

Alexei Shamov

Class to convert .NET classes into readable debug output with less effort

Silverlight Debugging - Beginner's Guide

22 Dec 2011

Sunasara Imdadhusen

Debug or attach the debugger to any local process running a Silverlight-based application in all supported browsers in your system.

A Mixed-Mode Stackwalk with the IDebugClient Interface

22 Apr 2012

Mattias Högström

A native stackwalk funtion like Stackwalk64 cannot handle mixed-mode stacks, since managed code does not use the stack in the same way as native code does. There is an API called IDebugClient, that does walk a mixed-mode stack correctly, which we will explore.

Debugging Hadoop HDFS using IntelliJ IDEA on Linux

27 Dec 2015

Mallanagouda Patil

This article helps to setup debug environment for hadoop framework on Linux Ubuntu using IntelliJ IDEA

Debugging Dotnet Applications in a Local Docker Container using Visual Studio 2015

22 Nov 2016

Mahesh Patil

Key issues in setting up VS 2015 for debugging applications running on local docker container

Plugging and Preventing Managed Memory Leaks

22 Nov 2012

Amit Bezalel

Tackling mananged memory leaks using windbg, profiliers and weakreferencs

Windows

memory

debugging

Simple two file graphics library for C/C++

16 Apr 2012

Robert Umbehant

A two file graphics library for debugging otherwise graphically deficient applications.

Automating the Reporting of Critical Errors in Your Program

2 Dec 2012

OlegKrivtsov

How to automate collecting information about critical errors occurring in your program to greatly simplify your life in sense of bug analysis and troubleshooting.

10+ Powerful Debugging Tricks with Visual Studio

18 Apr 2012

Ivan Shcherbakov

The article describes 10 time-saving debugging techniques available in Visual Studio.

WPF Deobfuscator Addin to Visual Studio

30 Apr 2012

Mattias Högström

A WPF control that deobfuscates the callstack on the fly

Application Design - A Bad Day With Adapter Pattern and Log4Net

6 May 2017

Habibur Rony

This topic will cover the concept of the adapter pattern & how to implement logger using log4net. It will also cover what’s adapter pattern, why need, where & when to use; what’s Log4Net, implementation of logger using adapter pattern, how to implement and add custom SMTP appender & configuration.

Creating a Console Based Window for Debugging

21 Apr 2019

Michael Haephrati

This article will show how to selectively add a Console window to Win32 or even MFC programs for debugging purposes.

Debugging NHibernate: Session Management

13 Oct 2011

Sebastian Solnica

This article explains the details of the session management in NHibernate. It shows you how, using the debugger, you may examine session properties and check if it's opened and closed in a desired way.