Trouble shooting tools that a developer should possess

Question

Hi

I am looking for the different development aid and troubleshooting tools that a developer should know either working an application development or web development. I am in to desktop applications development in windows.

I am adding the tools i know

1) SysInternals suite (process explorer the most to troubleshoot issues related to windows handles and so on...) 2) Depends.exe (for unmanaged code to see dll dependencies)

I shall keep adding to this list when ever i come across the new ones. Others also please add the tools they use the most and they recommend to others.

Happy learnig!!

Answer 1

WinDbg. This blog has a lot of great information about debugging in general, and some amazing things you can do with WinDbg.

Answer 2

If you are specifically working on .NET then here is the complete list of .NET tools provided by Microsoft to help in troubleshooting the things etc.

.NET Framework Tools
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9kh6s92(VS.80).aspx