AT&T has finally enabled internet tethering so you can use your iPhone as a 3G connection. Those of you outside the US that have had iPhone tethering for years can feel free to laugh all you want now. Anyway, the downside to using an iPhone on a PC Read More...

As I was waiting for a minidump I was grabbing on a very large and busy server application to finish writing, my mind wandered and I realized there were quite a few ways to grab a minidump today. Back in the old Windows days, when we had to program up Read More...

Remote debugging in Visual Studio works great if both machines are on the same domain and/or workgroup. It also works dreamily if you're doing straight native C++ where you can use the TCP/IP as the debugging transport. The problem comes in when you need Read More...

If you haven't guessed by now from my blog, I have a little bit of a passing interest in PowerShell these days. Hal Rottenburg from PowerScripting Podcast will be interviewing me about PowerShell and how it applies to developers. Of course I'll have to Read More...

The other day I wrote about using SYMCHK.EXE from the Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDBG) install to pre-populate your symbol server cache. That prompted a question I got in email: Our test lab machines are isolated from the rest of our network and have Read More...

Symbol Servers are one of the best things that have ever happened in Windows debugging. Having a central store for all PDB files makes the debugging experience so much better because you'll always get exact right symbols with essentially no effort on Read More...