Automatically Freezing Threads (Brrrrr)
Looks like many people liked my macros that made multithreaded debugging easier. One of the comments on the article from Sam was worth exploring deeper: John, Great post! Would you […]
Easier Multithreaded Debugging
Last week I was working at Symantec and one of the people I was working with asked me the following: “When you’re debugging heavily multithreaded applicatons, Visual Studio doesn’t handle […]
The Swedes and Tourists
The estimable Raymond Chen posted a funny story today about an experience he had in Sweden. (Make sure you read Raymond’s post so you can understand one of the greatest […]
Paraffin3.1: New and Improved!
Aren’t “New and Improved” the most over used, and contradictory, terms in the marketer’s dictionary? How can something and be new, but yet improved because if it is improved that […]
How Does VS2010 Historical Debugging Work?
Visual Studio 2010’s Historical Debugging feature fascinates me. As you sit in the debugger, being able to move backwards while in the debugger (or attach the execution log to a […]
Comparing and Contrasting WPF and Silverlight
While Silverlight is a functional subset of WPF and the gap is ever narrowing, there are many features that WPF supports that Silverlight does not. Silverlight even offers a few […]
Upgrade Install from Vista to Win7 RC on a Mac Pro
While Microsoft really wants everyone to test doing an upgrade install of Windows 7 from Vista, I don’t know anyone who has because all my friends are jaded Windows developers. […]
Visual Studio Remote Debugging and PDB Files
Thanks for all the comments and emails about my blog entry, PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know. There was lots of nice feedback, but more importantly great questions! Instead […]
Mind Boggling Great Deal on a Lenovo X200 Tablet (and installing Win7)
As I have written in the past, I have a bit of a “love-hate” relationship with Lenovo and their ThinkPad line, but its way more on the love side because […]