A Behavior Change in Visual Studio 2013 .NET Breakpoints
One of my favorite tricks is to use Visual Studio breakpoints to call a method to force state changes when testing code. There’s just some times where calling a method […]
How Many Secrets do .NET PDB Files Really Contain?
Now that Devscovery is over, it’s time to get back to answering questions about one of my favorite subjects: PDB files! Yes, I lead an extremely exciting life if PDB […]
Do PDB Files Affect Performance?
After a detour into Historical Debugging, it’s time to come back to return to answering questions about PDB files. Here’s a question from Justin: Thanks for the great post once […]
PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know
Thanks for visiting one of the most popular pieces I’ve ever written! Based on questions I’ve written a few follow up articles you might find useful to extend your PDB […]
How to Capture a Minidump: Let Me Count the Ways
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 […]
Moving from VMware Server to Hyper-V
As I’ve written in the past, I’ve been using VMware (both Workstation 6.5 and Server 1.04) for what seems like ages. They’ve served me well but I wanted to be […]
Code Signing – It’s Cheaper and Easier than You Thought
One of the things I’ve always wanted to do, but never got around to, is to figuring out how to sign my code. Like most developers, I never really worried […]
WiX: Hints for New Users (Part 1 of 3)
If you remember some of the early pronouncements about .NET you probably heard the one where using .NET meant you could just XCOPY your binaries to the server and run […]
Complete Virtual Machine Backups with Mere Minutes of Downtime
Last week, I completely virtualized my life. Well, at least my server life is all virtualized. I’d been running my Team Foundation Server in a virtual machine, but took the […]