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Debugging .NET and Windows Applications (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)

by J. Robbins (Author)
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  • Paperback: 848 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.; 2nd edition (31 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735615365
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735615366
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.4 x 5.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 520,688 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the predecessor volume of Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows, which dealt with Visual Basic 6, John Robbins broke new ground by codifying the techniques and strategies involved in debugging Microsoft Windows applications. In this tremendously revised and much longer version (in keeping with Microsoft's substantial shift to the .NET architecture), Robbins achieves great progress in making a proper professional discipline out of debugging--and in showing how to design software to keep bugs from appearing in the first place.

The greatest value of Robbins' work is in his treatment of bugs' origins in flawed software design and their later manifestation in faulty coding practice. He explains in great detail, for example, how to use assertions (in concert with error handling) to keep bad data from getting into software modules and causing trouble. This coverage is why your development team should read this book before getting too far down the development path.

If you're already done with your software system and just can't make it work right, this book offers hope as well. Want to write a method that you invoke manually only when the program is at a breakpoint in the debugger? This book shows how. Need lots of details on how to add assembly-language code to your Visual C++ .NET software? You'll find them here. There's a lot of information about how debuggers do their work in general, too. To put it concisely, this book contains a career's worth of information on how to keep bugs to a minimum and track them down when they occur. --David Wall

Topics covered: how to design Microsoft Windows software to minimise design flaws, implement designs with as few software errors as possible, and use diagnostic tools and techniques to squash bugs that make it into your systems. All the latest Visual Studio .NET tools get attention, as do techniques for getting the most out of those tools. Specific coverage goes to strategies for fixing thread deadlock problems, resolving memory troubles, and reading Dr Watson dumps. --Amazon.com

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Offers application debugging techniques for Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows, covering topics such as exception monitoring, crash handlers, and multithreaded deadlocks.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential engineering tome for Microsoft developers, 27 April 2003
This is a top class book, and easily one of the best developer books I've read to come out of Microsoft Press in the last year. The first edition rocked and this update (more of a complete rewrite really) is well worth getting if you had the first edition. The book balances very well the managed (.NET) and un-managed debugging domains - however much of the real value is the help it gives you debugging systems that mix the two together. Almost all of all the "interesting" debugging I've done in the last year was in systems that mixed up .NET and "legacy code". You should read this book not only if you want to learn more about debugging, but if you want to learn more about the underlying platform, if you used to buy those "Inside Windows NT" books then get a copy of this. There is a lot of coverage of the cool new debugging features in Visual Studio .NET 2003 (I know a lot of developers who still limit themselves to the Visual Studio 6 subset of functionality which is insane), at the same time there is lots of good stuff for those who prefer to live at a command prompt and want to get "under the IDE".

Finally, I would say that this is a great book for putting the "fire back in the belly" when it comes to delivering software that you'd be proud to own up to. I've been waving pages from it under the noses of other senior developers and managers at our shop.

It's not a light read, but it's time well spent and whilst I think you'll get most value reading it cover to cover it is structured such that you can dive in and rapidly use the techniques and knowledge "in anger".

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