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Advanced .NET Debugging book

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Last week i got the new Advanced .NET Debugging book by Mario Hewardt (co-authored with Daniel Pravat) in the mail.  I had the pleasure of tech reviewing it earlier this year and it is a really good deep dive in .net debugging and .net internals.

The book talks about debugging .net apps with WinDbg and with PowerDBG (Powershell scripts for debugging by Roberto Farah) as well as other tools and techniques for debugging .net apps, and is well worth a read if you are interested in .net debugging.

Enjoy,
Tess

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  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2009
    What other books (if any) would you recommend for brushing up on advanced debugging?

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2009
    Advanced debugging? Where are the beginning debugging books? :}

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2009
    my favourite is John Robbins .net debugging book. It's good for advanced and beginner .net debuggers.   In reality it's a book about troubleshooting in general sprinkled with lots of good post-mortem debugging tips.

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2009
    I have both John Robbins and Mario Hewardt books. I really recommend them, for begginers and advanced debuggers.

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2009
    hi tess, can u send a copy of the book to me . alonesword@gmail.com tks.

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2009
    hi tess, can u send a copy of the book to me . alonesword@gmail.com tks.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2010
    Tess, When a you going to write a book?

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2010
    John Robbins's .net debugging book<<Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows>> was published on March 26, 2003 . It's too old. :(

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2010
    The john robbins book deals a lot with how to think when debugging certain problems, and the good part is that this hasn't changed much since 2003.     Although there are a lot of new profiling tools on the market pretty much all that is said in that book still holds.  The things that change are the technologies you debug, but the same practices can be applied to debugging older technologies as newer ones. The types of problems that you could create in your .NET apps back then (hangs, crashes, memory leaks, exceptions etc.) are also very much the same...  so i think even though it's from 2003 it's still a very valuable book.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2010
    Tess, how useful would you say this book would be for .Net 1.0 apps (I note even the ancient John Robbins one is 2.0)?

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2010
    Tim,  I would say that it is useful for 1.0 as well given that the core of the framework has been the same all the time as well as .net debugging.  The problems have changed but both this and the Robbins book talk a lot about concepts that have been the same throughout all the versions

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2010
    Ok, thanks - I'll give it a try. Tim

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2010
    I have read few it's chapters and found it very use full to get knowledge on working of CLR and how to use sos.dll with windbg to see  what is happening when a .net application gets executed. Tim , i have been searching for this book on net to download a copy for myself but could not found it. could you please send a copy for me on arunmalik111@yahoo.co.in. Thanks in

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2010
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