For years I have been using the DEBUG compiler constant in VB.NET to write messages to the console. I've also been using System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write in similar fashion. It was always my understanding that when RELEASE was used as the build option, that all of these statements were left out by the compiler, freeing your production co...
Hello, I've trying to get an ASP.net (v2) app to work in the debugger and keep running into a problem because the value returned by HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["APPL_MD_PATH"].ToLower() is an empty string. I have found out that this "Retrieves the metabase path for the Application for the ISAPI DLL". Can anybody shed s...
I have a Font Detect code that does not work in Google Chrome, and I thought I would find out what is going on. But I still can't figure out how I can add breakpoints or do watch etc. I am looking for something like FireBug. I assume I would need to install a third party debugger? ...
I'm trying to debug a deadlock in a multi-threaded Python application after it has locked up. Is there a way to attach a debugger to inspect the state of the process? Edit: I'm attempting this on Linux, but it would be great if there were a cross-platform solution. It's Python after all :) ...
Is there any tool which will allow me to perform a free text search over a system's code, but only over the code which was actually executed during a particular invocation? To give a bit of background, when learning my way around a new system, I frequently find myself wanting to discover where some particular value came from, but search...
What is your favorite technique for launching a windbg user-mode remote debugging session? Why is do you prefer this technique over other techniques? (pros/cons) There are at least four different ways to do user-mode remote debug using windbg, as documented in the "Remote Debugging" section of the debugging tools for windows help file. ...
When using Google Chrome, I want to debug some javascript. How can I do that? ...
I know and have XCode, but I was wondering if there were any other complete development environments that support Objective C? I'm not looking for solutions with vim or emacs, nor editors like BBEdit that support syntax highlighting, but a full fledged IDE with: code completion compilation debugging refactoring Extra points for being...
I would like to debug my separately running JSP/Struts/Tomcat/Hibernate application stack using the Eclipse IDE debugger. How do I setup the java JVM and eclipse so that I can set breakpoints, monitor variable values, and see the code that is currently executing? ...
The win32.perl.org web site provides references to several Perl distributions for MS Windows. For a long time I have been using ActivePerl from ActiveState but recently I switched to Strawberry Perl. IMHO The only advantage that Active Perl still has over Strawberry Perl is the fact that it comes with Perl Tk which means its easy to ...
If you have a statically allocated array, the Visual Studio debugger can easily display all of the array elements. However, if you have an array allocated dynamically and pointed to by a pointer, it will only display the first element of the array when you click the + to expand it. Is there an easy way to tell the debugger, show me thi...
When you're doing a usual gdb session on an executable file on the same computer, you can give the run command and it will start the program over again. When you're running gdb on an embedded system, as with the command target localhost:3210', how do you start the program over again without quitting and restarting your gdb session? ...
GDB has severe issues when debugging with multiple threads (pthreads). Are there any other good multi-threaded debuggers for C/C++ on *nix? ...
Briefly: Does anyone know of a GUI for gdb that brings it on par or close to the feature set you get in the more recent version of Visual C++? In detail: As someone who has spent a lot of time programming in Windows, one of the larger stumbling blocks I've found whenever I have to code C++ in Linux is that debugging anything using comm...
I teach a sort of "lite" C++ programming course to novices ("lite" meaning no pointers, no classes, just plain old C, plus references and STL string and vectors). Students have no previous experience in programming, so I believe that using an interactive debugger would help them understand program flow, variables, and recursion. The cou...
Ideally the reader has upgraded a native C++ program to Visual Studio 2008, which contains an OpenClipboard() block. Why not try setting a breakpoint just after getting a successful return-code from OpenClipboard() and step through your code. According to the Internet it may work on your system, but of course, not on mine, thanks for t...
Please consider both commercial and free debuggers. Would like to see also the pros and cons for each. ...
When writing C/C++ code, in order to debug the binary executable the debug option must be enabled on the compiler/linker. In the case of GCC, the option is -g. When the debug option is enabled, how does the affect the binary executable? What additional data is stored in the file that allows the debugger function as it does? ...
When I start my process from Visual Studio, it is always created inside a job object. I would like to know how to turn this behaviour off. Any ideas? I expect that it is created in a job object to be debugged. I want to place my program in a different job object. It's not the hosting process. I'm talking about a Job Object. This is an ...
What would be a good alternative to Visual Studio ? Free or non-free, but a free program definitely makes a better choice. So what do you guys use ? If anything like that exist... ...