greggm's WebLog
Hints for the native debugger’s expression evaluator
This is a list of a few hints for using the native debugger's expression evaluator. These are...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 02/24/2004
Debugging virtual memory problems
Today I looked at a virtual memory usage bug. I determined that the function to set a breakpoint on...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 02/12/2004
Programs and the Visual Studio.NET Debugger
The Visual Studio .NET debugger supports debugging multiple types of code running in the same...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 02/07/2004
How to find the owner of a critical section
Many times in my life I have needed to debug a deadlock. You have one thread trying to acquire a...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 02/05/2004
Other debugger blogs
A few of my coworkers also started blogs this week: https://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/23/2004
Why interop debugging is difficult
The Visual Studio debugger supports debugging both .NET code and native code at the same time. We...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/23/2004
Page fault notes
I have been doing some page fault analysis lately, and I decided to share what I have learned....
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/21/2004
Improving speed while running under the debugger
If stepping in the debugger is taking too long, here are a few suggestions on improving your...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/20/2004
Whitepaper: How to solve debugger problems
A coworker maintains a FAQ for some of the most frequent 7.0/7.1 debugger problems....
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/20/2004
chkstk
A while back, I found a problem where I was getting a stack overflow exception inside of chkstk....
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/19/2004
What does working set tell you?
Recently, I have been looking at memory usage. Up until this point, I have been using working set to...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/19/2004
Introductions...
My name is Gregg Miskelly. I am a developer on the Visual Studio team working on the debugger. I...
Author: Gregg Miskelly Date: 01/19/2004