As I've discussed , PDB files are wondrous bundles of binary joy. However, loading missing PDB files can quickly become an angst-ridden teenager as you wait what seems like forever on a network timeout for missing symbols. This is especially apparent Read More...

While Microsoft really wants everyone to test doing an upgrade install of Windows 7 from Vista, I don't know anyone who has because all my friends are jaded Windows developers. Having installed Win 7 RC from scratch twice on my laptops, I was feeling Read More...

Thanks for all the comments and emails about my blog entry, PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know . There was lots of nice feedback, but more importantly great questions! Instead of responding in the blog comments to these questions as I normally Read More...

As I have written in the past , I have a bit of a "love-hate" relationship with Lenovo and their ThinkPad line, but its way more on the love side because their hardware utterly rocks. As it was getting time for a new laptop, I surfed over to the Lenovo Read More...

Most developers realize that PDB files are something that help you debug, but that's about it. Don't feel bad if you don't know what's going on with PDB files because while there is documentation out there, it's scattered around and much of it is for Read More...