wintellect-blogs|Mar 17, 2014

WintellectNOW Author Blog Round Up: March

It’s time for this month’s blog round-up! Check out what our authors have been creating over the past month!    This month in MSDN, Rachel Appel explores the Hub control in the Hub project template in Visual Studio.  If you are new to the Hub project template, which enables you to deliver a large volume of…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 17, 2014

WintellectNOW Authors on the Road: March Update

Our authors are everywhere! If you enjoy watching their WintellectNOW videos, why not meet up with them in person?  We have folks speaking, attending, and working booths at a number of events this spring.  If you find yourself at any of the events below, please stop by and say “hi.” We’d love to meet you…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 17, 2014

WintellectRAW: Kevin Griffin

Welcome to WintellectRAW – featurettes about your favorite authors.  Each month we’ll give you a quick glimpse into the life of a WintellectNOW author – how they got their start, some of their hobbies, their favorite projects, and more!   This month we feature Kevin Griffin, a Microsoft MVP, entrepreneur, and former childhood nuclear submarine…
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net|Mar 17, 2014

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 at a breakpoint is the fastest way to create a test. To call a method at a breakpoint, set a regular location breakpoint, right click…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 13, 2014

Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps in a van down by the river) you may have noticed that Node.js is kind of a big deal. Since its introduction in late 2009, Node has steadily grown in popularity and now occupies prime real estate as a (if not the) de facto choice of…
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web-development|Mar 13, 2014

Cookbook for ASP.NET MVC and Angular.js Web Apps

As I’ve spent time with AngularJS, I’ve become very impressed with the clarity it brings to developing enterprise-level web applications. I thought it would also be valuable to create a GitHub repository with some examples of how one might integrate AngularJS with ASP.NET MVC. Thus, the Angular-MVC-Cookbook repository was born. I hope that I (and…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 12, 2014

Displaying Multiple .NET Objects with WinDBG’s Command Language

While we are getting some nice tools from Microsoft for analyzing our memory, there’s still a lot of gaps where you have to resort to WinDBG and SOS. A perfect example that I’ve run into is looking at variables/types that are in different app domains because the Visual Studio debugging environment has essentially zero support…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 11, 2014

Become a Development Wizard and Win an XBox One!

For the past decade Wintellect has been helping developers like you improve what you do by sharing how we do it with our enterprise customers. We’re not just trainers, but hands on consultants who have spent combined centuries of experience in the trenches shoulder to shoulder with teams to create next generation software using the…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 8, 2014

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 files set my heart racing. Maybe they have a pill for that. In my blog post on PDBs and remote debugging Patrick asked an interesting…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 8, 2014

Correctly Creating Native C++ Release Build PDBs

In my ongoing discussion of PDB files and debugging, Sa Li had a great question: Should the final release native program also generate the pdb files before being published? If switching on the pdb in link setting, what kind of info would be added into the .exe executable file? I found our program grows a…
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debugging-and-performace|Mar 8, 2014

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 again. I was looking forward to your debugging virtual training, but unfortunately it was cancelled. The company I work for is pushing pack against building…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 8, 2014

Keeping Specific PDB Files from Loading in the Debugger

As I’ve discussed, PDB files are wondrous bundles of binary joy. However, loading missing PDB files can quickly become an angst-ridden teenager as you wait what seems like forever on a network timeout for missing symbols. This is especially apparent in Tom’s question: For nearly two years I’ve been searching the Internet for an answer…
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