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WinDBG 6.9.3.113 Released

Looks like the WinDBG team was busy over the weekend and posted a new build of WinDBG: 6.9.3.113 . The big fixes look like squashed bugs and performance improvements in symbol server portions. I bet you could drop those DLLs into your Visual Studio directories Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 2:27 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Vista x64 is Now Officially Supported on Mac Hardware!

You all know my geek love for Apple hardware. Yesterday Apple released the official drivers for Vista x64 support! You'll need to download and install Boot Camp Update 2.1 and you'll be set. Totally and completely excellent news! Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 3:31 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

Easily Downloading and Installing the Sysinternals Suite

Everyone uses Mark Russinovich's and Bryce Cogswell's excellent Sysinternals Tools. Tools like Process Explorer and Process Monitor have helped solve some of the toughest bugs I've ever worked on. I've been surprised how many people didn't know that all Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:18 PM by jrobbins | 4 Comments

Paraffin 1.03 – Couple of Bug Fixes

Last year I released a tool to help make maintaining WiX 2.0-based installations easier called Paraffin . I've fixed the following two issues: I was relying on the short name of the file when generating an updated .PARAFFIN file. Sadly, it looks like Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:19 PM by jrobbins | 5 Comments

Finding an Object’s GC Generation in the Visual Studio Debugger

As a .NET developer, your top three concerns are 1) Memory, 2) Memory, and the last one is the toughest, 3) Memory. While .NET takes away the pain of manual memory management if you aren't constantly worrying about what's in your Gen 2 heap, you're going Read More...
Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 6:05 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 on a Mac Pro

Recently, the computer I was using as my server started having some overheating problems. The good news is that the machine shut down before harming components, but with that machine running my domain controller I needed it running in order to get work Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:15 PM by jrobbins | 4 Comments

The Travel Day from Hell

Sometimes traveling for business can be fun. As part of my job, I've been able to travel all over this wonderful planet. On my business trips I've gotten to see great sites like the Great Wall of China, Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Old Jerusalem Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 11:14 AM by jrobbins | 26 Comments

Eight Weeks of PowerShell

As I wrote a little bit ago my New Year's resolution was to see if I could make PowerShell my full time command shell. The good news is that after eight weeks, I'm still using PowerShell and enjoying it. As I still have fifteen years of CMD/4NT barnacles Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:30 AM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

SOSEX 1.1 Released

Steve Johnson has updated his must have SOSEX extensions for WinDBG. The big change is that the !vars command can now dump the locals and parameters for a specific frame all the stack frames on a thread. For example, in the following snippet from a session, Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:54 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

.NET Mass Downloader 1.2 Released

Kerem Kusmezer has been busy! If you've had problems with .NET Mass Downloader working behind a proxy server, version 1.2 adds the –proxy command line switch if you need to specify server, username, password, and domain. The –proxy switch uses the following Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:42 PM by jrobbins | 6 Comments

.NET Mass Downloader 1.1 Released

The feedback and downloads for .Net Mass Downloader have been quite pleasing! Kerem and I just went through and fixed all the reported bugs so the 1.1 release is better than ever. The big fixes were that we now properly handle paths with spaces in them Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:04 PM by jrobbins | 14 Comments

Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader

Microsoft has really helped out the development community by making the .NET Reference Source Code available to the community. Being able to step in the debugger from your code to the Framework code truly helps with you understanding and use of all parts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:55 AM by jrobbins | 49 Comments

Debugging VBA Macros and Managed Components at the Same Time

This week I got the following question in email: I'm writing a COM component in C# that is used in Excel VBA macros. I really need to debug the VBA macro and the C# component at the same time. Is that possible? Absolutely! Here's the steps: Start Visual Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:44 PM by jrobbins | 2 Comments

PowerShell Script for Setting Symbol Paths

In my continued resolution to make PowerShell my full time command line interface, I've been porting over some of my batch and JavaScript files as a learning exercise. Since the only way to really learn a technology is to do something real with it, this Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:21 PM by jrobbins | 1 Comments

Apple Now Supports Vista x64 on Mac Pros!

As I have been screaming from the roof tops , the best Vista x64 machines are Apple's Mac Pros . They are rock solid, quiet, and beautiful. Apple just announced the latest Mac Pros with up to 8 CPUs. They also snuck in complete support for Vista x64! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:14 AM by jrobbins | 1 Comments
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