I would wait for the second edition .. in the mean time you can also read up on things like symbol servers and source servers in his column for MS ... bugslayer http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/find/default.aspx?type=Ti&phrase=Bugslayer&words=exact
He has articles on much of the material in his book ... symbol servers, source servers, SOS, minidumps, etc Cheers, Greg On 10/10/06, J. Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Debugging Applications for Microsoft .Net and Microsoft Windows, John Robbins -- the bible on this; also covers setting up a "symbol server" so that you'll get symbols from the .Net libraries and the Windows APIs as well!! I see the also has a new book "Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications" but it can only be pre-ordered (at least on Amazon). Maybe you should wait for that, to get the very latest info. At 03:45 PM 10/10/2006, Frans Bouma wrote (in part) >> [snip] I do not need line numbers in my exceptions as I >> take a minidump. I then use my pdb files which are not >> distributed to look at the minidump file when it is sent >> back. This allows me to see much more that just a line >> number, I can see arguments being passed on the stack, what >> other threads were doing, and other normal debugger type things. > > This sounds very interesting, do you have a link to some material I could read about this? :) (I'm at the other side of the atlantic so I can't make it to your talk :)) > > TIA > Frans >[snip] J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
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