On my post about restoring with Windows Home Server, Bill Tudor had an excellent comment that I felt everyone needed to read concerning backup and restore: Don't overlook the build-in image-based backup available in the better SKU's of Vista and Win7. Read More...

Messing around I managed to wipe out one of my machines. Fortunately, I have rock solid backups with Windows Home Server , which I highly recommend. When disaster strikes, all you need to do is pop in the WHS Restore CD, follow the prompts, and you're Read More...

In my article on Easier Multithreaded Debugging , there was a great question in the comments from GregM : John, how about a way to make VS automatically attach to any children spawned by the process(es) being debugged? The short answer: that's not possible Read More...

Looks like many people liked my macros that made multithreaded debugging easier . One of the comments on the article from Sam was worth exploring deeper: John, Great post! Would you have any idea how to make VS do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/837869/is-there-a-shortcut-in-vs-for-next-statement-in-current-thread Read More...

Last week I was working at Symantec and one of the people I was working with asked me the following: "When you're debugging heavily multithreaded applicatons, Visual Studio doesn't handle it too well. You can't see multiple thread call stacks and locals Read More...

The estimable Raymond Chen posted a funny story today about an experience he had in Sweden. (Make sure you read Raymond's post so you can understand one of the greatest blog comments ever !) Anyway, I had to laugh out loud because I had something similar Read More...