July 2010 - Posts

Every once in a while you run across an undocumented trick that totally and completely makes your day. A great example of that is the ability to debug MSBuild scripts in Visual Studio. Today I ran across another amazingly useful feature in WinDBG and Read More...
See the corrected entry with pictures http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2010/07/14/a-cool-windbg-sos-hidden-feature.aspx . Read More...
Before I get into the quick new features for Paraffin 3.13 ( download here ), I need to ask for your help. Pretty much from the first day I released Paraffin, I've been consistently getting the following question: I want to be able to uninstall obsolete Read More...
Have you ever tried to figure out why your MSBuild-based build is failing? While the diagnostic output is OK, it really isn't an each task (no pun intended) to debug what's going on in an MSBuild file with the traditional means of <Message> tasks. Read More...
Here’s my latest script for setting up a user’s_NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable as well as Visual Studio 2010’s symbolsettings. In a previous version of this script, I wasn’t setting the publicsymbol server cache directory in Visual Studio so you Read More...