In MS VisualStudio (I'm using 2005), it's possible to right-click in some code file and 'insert tracepoint' right there. The default message printed when the tracepoint is hit is Function: $FUNCTION, Thread: $TID $TNAME. I would rather have it different (e.g. Thread: $TID [{(void*)this}::$FUNCTION]). Now it's easy to just type in the ...
Hi, I know there's a lot of stuff on TDD and i'm trying to pick up the practice too. But i wonder is it a good idea to to TDD your bug fix too? I was thinking along the lines of find the bug and narrow it down. Write unit test to ensure that it will now pass whatever problem that it previously caused. Write more unit test for other brea...
firebug is quite useful tool that I can't think myself living without it. I also downloaded the js file that helps you get similar functionality when using IE6 hoping it would help me resolve some issues, however, the messages I receive are not quite friendly such as: "Expected ':' (default2.aspx,16)" - on line 16 there is nothing that ...
We recently had a new requirement to use the phonon component of Qt, which on windows requires Visual Studio. I installed VS2008 and ran a compile. There are a stack of problems due to make not working anything like nmake. Since I need to maintain cross-platform I want to test which compiler is being used so that I can make changes as...
I'm basically looking for a way to automate typing stuff like the following: cout << "a[" << x << "][" << y << "] =\t" << a[x][y] << endl; Something like: PRINTDBG(a[x][y]); Ideally this would also work for PRINTDBG(func(arg1, arg2)); and even PRINTDBG(if(condition) func(foo);); (which would print e.g. "if(false) func(5)"). ...
In my SharePoint app, I deploy some aspx pages to the [12 Hive]\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS folder. The pages are compiled in a debug mode, I'm copying both .apsx and .cs files. I used to be able to attach to w3wp.exe and set a breakpoint inside the .cs files and hit them just fine. Not today. I'm getting the dreaded "The breakpoint will not curren...
I've got a problem on an SQL Server 2005 Express instance, and I need to see exactly what is being run, since what I believe is being run works fine when I run it from Management Studio. It appears that Profiler is not available for SQL Server 2005 Express. When I attempt to run SQL Server 2000 Profiler against the 2005 Express edition...
How would you explain "symbols" in a way that a novice programmer like myself would understand? What are they? Are they some sort of mapping to functions? I would like to learn more advanced debugging techniques and this term has been a roadblock for me. ...
I have a solution with 8 seperate Web Apps which are required to redirect/link to each other on occasion. Also I use Subversion as my sourceControl and do development in one branch and bug fixing in another. Thus I can have more than one copy of the web suite on my machine at once. For the purposes of this question let's say they are ...
I am working with a 3rd party framework, and the code is pretty bad, and I'm getting exceptions that I can't figure out. I was able to decompile using Reflector, and now I'm trying to debug using Deblector, but I can't even figure out how to get a breakpoint set. Why is there no documentation for this tool? There is nothing available abo...
I need to debug some annoying CSS issues on IE7, I have the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar installed. It is having trouble resolving all of the styles that are being applied. I am also using Firebug lite, it is helpful but way too basic. Debugging this stuff in Firefox is not an option due to the poor design of this intranet web...
When using WinDbg, where should the private symbol files (pdb?) be placed? My situation is: I have a DLL which I want to debug. I have the source code and symbol files for this DLL. This DLL is called by another DLL (which I don't have symbols or source for) which, in turn, is called by an EXE (which I also don't have symbols or source ...
I've seen once on a site, a call graph digging into the most low level libraries of a web request initiated by a PHP appplication with call timings and summary. Seems to me that this is a great way to spot the reason of bottlenecks that aren't obvious while profiling PHP-only code. Something like strace does but with far more detail. ...
I'm using IDebugSymbols::GetNameByOffset and I'm finding that I get the same symbol name for different functions that overload the same name. E.g. The code I'm looking up the symbols for might be as follows: void SomeFunction(int) {..} void SomeFunction(float) {..} At runtime, when I have an address of an instruction from each of the...
So here's an issue at my work. I've got a few testng cases that, if run within the primary batch of test cases, wreak havock throughout the other test cases. Rather than going through and changing all our test cases, I've made a group for the involved cases. I run the main test suite, excluding that group, and then make a second ant call...
Hey Guys, I have troubles to debug a beanshell script all I get all the time is: Exception invoking imported object method. : at Line: 194 : in file: inline evaluation of: ``import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.util.Arrays; i . . . '' : migrateModels ( models , apiManager , isSAPRetailImportCondition , isSA...
Sorry in advanced gdb gurus, but how can I ask to display multiple vars in one line? So I want to get output like: 30 if(s[i] != '\0') 5: s[i] = 101 'e' 4: exp = 14 3: val = 123.45 2: sign = 1 1: i = 6 I've been typing in disp s[i] ENTER disp exp ENTER (etc, etc) and I just know there's got to be a better way to do this in one line ...
Have a lot of troubles on production server. Some routing cause crashing of Application Pool with event id 1011: Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1011 Date: 1/21/2009 Time: 9:08:17 AM User: N/A Computer: xxxxxxxxxxxxx Description: A process serving application pool 'Defaul...
Yesterday I made a simulation using Python. I had a few difficulties with variables and debugging. Is there any software for Python, which provides a decent debugger? Related question: What is the best way to debug my Python code? ...
I have a vb project which calls functions in a dll. The dll is created in a separate vs project (portaudio), which is written in c. The dll c project compiles clean and builds the required dll, which I am currently dropping in c:\windows\system to vb runtime can see it. VB Project lives in c:\devprojects\vbtest C Project lives in c:\...