debugging

Call a Firebug command from client code.

I would like to apply some sort of IoC, with debugee code, i.e. the current HTML document, and the debugger, Firebug. It would be great to have some sort of document that asks Firebug to open a push channel from the document, versus the more common scenario of the debugger pulling information from the debugee document. Is this possible...

C# MessageBox Error Messages

Hello. In my application I am using message boxes to display error information. try { // Something... } catch (SystemException ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); } This was fine at first, but as my program grows it becomes increasingly difficult to find the try-catch block wh...

Debugging Visual Studio 2010 Unit Test and WCF Service in one IDE instance

I have created a WCF service in Visual Studio 2010 along with some supporting assemblies. I have also created a test project which contains multiple unit tests for the service and the supporting assemblies. Right now I have them all in one solution with the Test project having a service reference (http) to the WCF service. If I debug th...

Where can I get Mdbg?

I'd like to be able to debug .net code using Mdbg. Is there any way of getting it besides installing Visual Studio ( assuming this is a valid way of obtaining ) ? ...

How to use gdb to find a floating point exception in g++ code

I have a g++ program that runs without user input. Somewhere the program is interrupted and it says "Floating point exception." Can gdb help me find what's causing this in my code? How? ...

Does there exists a method to render an object using DebuggerDisplayAttribute

I have a number of classes that are decorated with DebuggerDisplayAttribute. I want to be able to add trace statements to Unit Tests that will display instances of these classes. Does there exist a method in the .NET Framework that will display an object formatted using DebuggerDisplayAttribute (or fall back to using .ToString() if no ...

How can I debug a Windows service that crashes?

I have a .NET Windows service that appears to be crashing due to C00000005 (access violation--according to Dr Watson). When I attach the VS debugger to it--whether I build it with or without symbols--the VS debugger just stops when the service crashes, instead of stopping to give me a chance to do any investigation. Is that to be expec...

slideDown() makes everything in wrapper shift

Hello everyone, I am currently creating a simple menu where there are several names of services and a user can click on one and jQuery will show it's corresponding paragraph describing it below it. My jQuery code is fine and does exactly what I want, however, I have one bug I have yet to iron out. Whenever I click one of these headings ...

After calling a COM-dll component, C# exceptions are not caught by the debugger

I'm using a COM dll provided to me by 3rd-party software company (I don't have the source code). I do know for sure they used Java to implement it because their objects contain property names like 'JvmVersion'. After I instantiated an object introduced by the provided COM dll, all exceptions in my C# program cannot be caught by the VS ...

What C++ library do I need to get this program to compile

When I try to compile my program I get these errors: btio.c:19: error: ‘O_RDWR’ was not declared in this scope btio.c:19: error: ‘open’ was not declared in this scope btio.c: In function ‘short int create_tree()’: btio.c:56: error: ‘creat’ was not declared in this scope btio.c: In function ‘short int create_tree(int, int)’: btio.c:71: e...

xdebug for PHP 5.2 on Windows 7 64bit

Hi all, Previous posters have linked to http://fusionxlan.com/PHPx64.php to install 64-bit capable versions of xdebug. I need PHP 5.2 compatibility for Magento, and fusionxlan has disappeared and archive.org doesn't have a copy. Does anyone have a copy of the fusionxlan download or dll that they can share? Thanks, JD ...

How can I debug VGA Out on an iPad?

The Dock Connector to VGA Adapter (required for VGA out on the iPad) uses the Dock Connector, so I can't have my laptop connected at the same time. I remember reading something about a Remote debugger, but despite lots of searching, I'm unable to find it. How can I run the debugger to test VGA output of my iPad app? ...

Disable debug output in libxml2 and xmlsec

Hi, In my software, I use libxml2 and xmlsec to manipulate (obviously) XML data structures. I mainly use XSD schema validation and so far, it works well. When the data structure input by the client doesn't match the XSD schema, libxml2 (or xmlsec) output some debug strings to the console. Here is an example: Entity: line 1: parser er...

Is it possible to emit warning when I read value of unset variable?

How to configure PHP to emit warning when I try to read value of unset variable? It is frequently happens when I rename variable in one place, I obtain weird result because I forgot to rename it in other place. ...

Can you transport a Javascript object to server and receive it in the same state?

I'm considering creating a simple remote debugging application for Javascript. Actually, I want to provide an object to Firebug Lite and let it do all the job. So, can I get an object from one page, serialize it, send it to server and then to another browser and finally see the same results in Firebug Lite (on that other client) as I wo...

Any reason why PresentationTraceSources.TraceLevel=High would not print any info to the output window?

I've been trying to get to the bottom of an issue with binding the SelectedItem of my ComboBox and since I've had not success thusfar I started looking at ways to get more detailed debugging information by setting PresentationTraceSources.TraceLevel=High for specific bindings. Unfortunately after doing so I don't see any related items in...

Tips and Tricks to avoid iphone app crash

Is there any tips to avoid crashing of iPhone applications. Sometime it is very difficult to understand where the problem is. What are the possible reasons of iPhone app crashes ? ...

Why does the release build of my iPhone app crash on the device on the first run after installation?

I have an iPhone app that's been in development for about 2 weeks. We recently tried the "release" version of the build on a device, and to our great unhappiness, it crashes in one of the views with an "EXC_BAD_ACCESS". This crash only occurs on devices, and only in the "release" build. Not only that, but it only happens the first time ...

Capture debug output in c#

Hello, do you know if it's possible to capture debug output (create debug listener) in C#? I'd like to have functionality like DebugView has, but I'd like to log debug output to SQL server. Or maybe a better way would be to make DebugView log to a file, and then feed the file to SQL server? Edit: I've implemented TraceListener and added...

#ifdef with gfortran 77

I am using gfortran to compile FORTRAN 77 and would like to have DEBUG build options by using the preprocessor directive #ifdef. However, when I use them I get compile time warnings "Illegal preprocessor directive". Is it possible to have this functionality without deviating from the standard toolchain? ...