Habib Heydarian's Blog @ Microsoft
Program Manager for Microsoft Robotics, Visual Studio
How to create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 8 Developer Preview
Like many folks, after watching the BUILD keynote this morning, I couldn't wait to get home and...
Date: 09/14/2011
One bug, two developers: Collaborative debugging is now a reality in Visual Studio 2010
Quite often, one or more developers need to collaborate on a bug to figure out the root cause of the...
Date: 12/01/2009
Search For This Line In IntelliTrace
One of the key benefits of IntelliTrace is that it collects lots of useful information about your...
Date: 11/24/2009
IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison
One of the easiest ways to understand what IntelliTrace is and what it does, is through a comparison...
Date: 11/20/2009
How to Count the Lines of Code (LOC) in your application using Visual Studio
I was talking to someone the other day and he asked me whether Visual Studio has a tool to count the...
Date: 10/27/2009
Looking for questions or feedback on IntelliTrace
During the last few months, I've been blogging extensively about a new Visual Studio 2010 feature...
Date: 10/26/2009
Using IntelliTrace to view the return value of a VB or C# method
A few months ago, I blogged about how to view the return value of a C# or VB method in the Visual...
Date: 10/23/2009
IntelliTrace is not available. Why?
When using IntelliTrace, you might run across the following error message in the IntelliTrace...
Date: 10/22/2009
The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger.
In my previous post Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace!, I...
Date: 10/21/2009
Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace!
One of the most talked about features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is IntelliTrace. In a nutshell,...
Date: 10/20/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: The Historical Debugger is now IntelliTrace!
Over the last few months, I've blogged a fair amount about a new feature in Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 10/19/2009
How to edit code when debugging a 64-bit application
One of the most popular features in the Visual Studio debugger is the ability to edit code during a...
Date: 10/12/2009
RUNTIME turns 100,000!
Today represents a huge personal milestone. My car reached a 100,000 miles! There is nothing unique...
Date: 09/29/2009
Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010
If you have written managed code that uses a COM object, then you are probably familiar with...
Date: 09/22/2009
Coverage of the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger
During the last couple of months, I've covered the Historical Debugger extensively. If you are...
Date: 09/21/2009
An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI)
In previous blogs, I have covered the Historical Debugger extensively and talked about many of the...
Date: 09/18/2009
Class Breakpoint: How to set a breakpoint on a C++ class in the Visual Studio Debugger
When debugging an application, there are times when you want the debugger to stop whenever any of...
Date: 09/10/2009
Troubleshooting common breakpoint problems in the Visual Studio debugger (Part I)
On the Visual Studio debugger team, one of the areas where we regularly receive feedback is when...
Date: 09/01/2009
How to debug a 64-bit dump using the Visual Studio debugger
One of the questions that comes up about debugging dump files is how to debug a dump file that was...
Date: 08/31/2009
A few facts about the DinnerNow.net 3.1 sample application
Now that the DinnerNow.net 3.1 sample application has been released, I thought I'd share some...
Date: 08/18/2009
DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released
DinnerNow.net 3.1 follows in the footsteps of the 3.0 release of DinnerNow.net by adding support for...
Date: 08/17/2009
How to install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 using the Command Line
On Windows Vista, to install IIS 7.0 from the command line, you can use a tool called the Windows...
Date: 08/14/2009
Getting Windows Mobile Device Center to work on Windows Server 2008 R2
When you try to install Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (drvupdate-amd64.exe) on Windows Server...
Date: 08/13/2009
Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010
In a previous post, I explained how to use Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2010 to detect dead code....
Date: 08/12/2009
How to detect the .NET Framework directory using PowerShell
As 64-bit machines become mainstream, one of the problems that developers run into is dealing with...
Date: 08/11/2009
Just released: Patch to make NetCFSvcUtil.exe work on Windows 7 (and other operating systems)
In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that NetCFSvcUtil.exe (available as part of Power Toys for .NET...
Date: 08/10/2009
Windows 7 RTM Training Kit For Developers is here!
If you are a developer and you are planning to write applications for Windows 7, then one of the...
Date: 08/07/2009
Visualize project dependencies with the Team System 2010 Architecture Explorer
As early as Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio has supported the ability to see the dependencies...
Date: 08/06/2009
PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010
Software quality is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. At PDC 2009 this year, there is...
Date: 08/05/2009
How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger
In a previous blog, I covered how to debug a LINQ to SQL query using the Historical Debugger. In...
Date: 08/05/2009
Catch string formatting bugs with Visual Studio Team System 2010
Formatting strings is a very common task in .NET development. Examples include formatting dates and...
Date: 08/03/2009
Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis
Last weekend, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out why I wasn't hitting a breakpoint in a...
Date: 07/31/2009
Debugging 101: How to skip over code in the Visual Studio Debugger
One of the questions that comes up regularly on newsgroups is "How do I skip over a section of...
Date: 07/30/2009
Use UML Sequence Diagrams in Team System 2010 to reverse engineer your code
One of the new features that we have added in Visual Studio Team System 2010 is the ability to...
Date: 07/29/2009
Quick Tip: How to move a breakpoint in the Visual Studio debugger
Setting a breakpoint in the Visual Studio debugger is as simple as placing your cursor on a line of...
Date: 07/28/2009
Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial)
Like any software product, with every new release of Visual Studio, we add numerous new features to...
Date: 07/27/2009
Walkthrough: Measure the performance of your JScript code with Team System 2010
In Visual Studio Team System 2010, one of the new features that we have added to the Profiler is the...
Date: 07/24/2009
The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar)
In a recent Channel 9 10-4 video, Brian Keller introduced the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio...
Date: 07/23/2009
The Visual Studio Output window: It has more to offer than meets the eye
At first glance, the Visual Studio Output window appears to be a boring tool whose only role in life...
Date: 07/22/2009
How to install and configure the DinnerNow.net 3.0 sample application [Video]
About two weeks ago, version 3.0 of the DinnerNow.net sample application was released and I covered...
Date: 07/20/2009
Walkthrough: Debug a WPF window or Windows Form without running your application [Video]
Most Windows GUI applications share a common trait. They all have multiple forms and/or dialogs. In...
Date: 07/17/2009
Code Analysis and NaN (Not a Number)
Code Analysis in Visual Studio Team System can be extremely helpful when it comes to pointing out...
Date: 07/16/2009
Mixed Mode Debugging for 64-bit Applications
In Visual Studio 2008 and earlier releases, one of the key complaints is that the debugger doesn't...
Date: 07/15/2009
Debugging LINQ to SQL queries using the Historical Debugger
I've covered the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger extensively in a few of the previous posts....
Date: 07/14/2009
Fun with Breakpoints in the Visual Studio Debugger
Once in a while, I come across a feature in the debugger where I ask myself: "I wonder if...
Date: 07/13/2009
Managing Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010 using Breakpoint Labels
One of the new features that we've added to the Visual Studio 2010 debugger is the ability to manage...
Date: 07/11/2009
Debugging WPF applications in Visual Studio 2010 using WPF Tracing
In an earlier blog, I described how to use the new WPF Visualizer to debug WPF applications in...
Date: 07/09/2009
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Profiler and Virtual Machines: Error VSP1454 is no more!
Prior to Team System 2010, if you try to profile an application on a virtual machine (e.g. Virtual...
Date: 07/09/2009
New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints
This should make many C/C++ developers happy when Visual Studio 2010 becomes available (you can...
Date: 07/07/2009