CrashFinder 2.8 – Yes, Native Code Still LIVES!
While .NET gets all the press, love and attention, hard core C++ native development still pays the bills for many of us. As it’s just a few days before the […]
NetMassDownloader 1.5 Has Complete Support for VS 2008 SP1
Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft’s servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server […]
So You Want To Set a Windows Journal Recording Hook on Vista? It’s Not Nearly as Easy as You Think!
Eons ago in Internet years, I wrote what proved to be a very popular tool, Tester, the latest edition appeared in my second book. With it you could record and […]
Random Thoughts on Visual Studio 2008 SP1
As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I’ve installed it on one machine so far and I thought I’d mention a few […]
Just Where Did Those Performance Counters Go?
On a particular Vista machine, I was setting up a PerfMon view to monitor the .NET memory performance of an application and ran into a problem. The.NET Memory # Bytes […]
Debugger Settings Visual Studio Add In– Easily Copy Breakpoints between Machines
So there I was knee deep in a great debugging challenge. On one machine, I had set up somewhere around 15 advanced breakpoints that had all sorts of properties set […]
Paraffin 1.04 – A New Switch and Easier Updates
If you’re using WiX 2.0, my Paraffin tool can help you automate some of your setup chores. To read more about Paraffin, see the three part article, Part 1, Part […]
Software Development Meme
So Charles Petzold tagged me for this Software Development Meme and did that hurt. Just kidding. J It’s the first time I’ve been tagged since I was like five years […]
In Defense of Vista and the Challenges Facing Windows 7
Perception is everything. That applies to everything in life and certainly applies to Vista. It doesn’t take much web searching to find plenty of commentary indicating that Vista has not […]