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PDC 2008 Thoughts

Just when you thought everything was said about the PDC, I thought I'd add a couple of notes from my perspective. I'd planned on doing this earlier, but am still recovering from all the parties and had to wait for the Mike Mathis to upload the best picture Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:17 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

Totally Awesome Windows Trick

While I prefer the term "particular", some (especially my wife and all my friends) would call me "anal-retentive." For example, I am, ahem, particular where my windows show up on the screen. I have all the applications I run set to their specific locations Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:48 AM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

PDC Open Session: The Future of Diagnostics and Debugging/Tuning

There's a ton two tons of interesting stuff coming up from the Diagnostics team in Dev10: the kind of stuff that completely changes the way you debug and tune! John Cunningham , the development manager for all diagnostic tools in Visual Studio, and I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:42 PM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

See You at the PDC!

This is like my seventh PDC! My first PDC was 15 years ago in 1993 and I still have the Windows plastic slinky on my bookshelf. Anyway, I'll be at the 2008 edition of the PDC so please stop by the Wintellect booth and say hello. As I'll be at the PDC Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:40 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

CrashFinder 2.8 – Yes, Native Code Still LIVES!

While .NET gets all the press, love and attention, hard core C++ native development still pays the bills for many of us. As it's just a few days before the mass geekfest which will be all about everything .NET I thought it was time to release a new CrashFinder! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:19 AM by jrobbins | 9 Comments

WinDBG .cmdtree File That Eases Some SOS Pain

Roberto Farah and Brad Wilson figured out the undocumented, but extremely cool .cmdtree WinDBG command. It lets you create a custom WinDBG window that contains any commands you want displayed in a tree control just waiting for you to double click on them. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:55 PM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

NetMassDownloader 1.5 Has Complete Support for VS 2008 SP1

Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft's servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server cache directory with all the source code and symbols. Microsoft did Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:30 AM by jrobbins | 8 Comments

So You Want To Set a Windows Journal Recording Hook on Vista? It’s Not Nearly as Easy as You Think!

Eons ago in Internet years, I wrote what proved to be a very popular tool, Tester , the latest edition appeared in my second book. With it you could record and playback UI automation scripts. While Tester wasn't perfect, the number of companies using Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:37 AM by jrobbins | 5 Comments

Random Thoughts on Visual Studio 2008 SP1

As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I've installed it on one machine so far and I thought I'd mention a few things I found interesting. The install took exactly an hour for me and was far better than the Visual Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:23 AM by jrobbins | 8 Comments

Just Where Did Those Performance Counters Go?

On a particular Vista machine, I was setting up a PerfMon view to monitor the .NET memory performance of an application and ran into a problem. The.NET Memory # Bytes in All Heaps Performance Counter wasn't in the list of performance counters. That was Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:53 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Debugger Settings Visual Studio Add In– Easily Copy Breakpoints between Machines

So there I was knee deep in a great debugging challenge. On one machine, I had set up somewhere around 15 advanced breakpoints that had all sorts of properties set such as conditionals, hit counts, and so on. As I was feeling like I was getting close Read More...
Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 1:45 AM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

Paraffin 1.04 – A New Switch and Easier Updates

If you're using WiX 2.0, my Paraffin tool can help you automate some of your setup chores. To read more about Paraffin, see the three part article, Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . Thanks to Matthew Goos who sent me the patch, there's a new –dirref when Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 9:42 PM by jrobbins | 4 Comments

In Defense of Vista and the Challenges Facing Windows 7

Perception is everything. That applies to everything in life and certainly applies to Vista. It doesn't take much web searching to find plenty of commentary indicating that Vista has not been well received and is often downright hated. In a lot of ways, Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:13 AM by jrobbins | 18 Comments

Software Development Meme

So Charles Petzold tagged me for this Software Development Meme and did that hurt. Just kidding. J It's the first time I've been tagged since I was like five years old. Anyway, here goes: How old were you when you first started programming? 26. Yes, I Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:44 AM by jrobbins | 3 Comments

Hear My Interview on Debugging

Craig Shoemaker recently interviewed me about my favorite topic, debugging, of course, for Pixel 8 . We had a great time on the interview and I even got to tell one of my favorite debugging war stories. We also talked about all the parts of .NET that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:03 AM by jrobbins | 2 Comments
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