I am new to visual studio/asp.net so please bear with me. Using vs 2005 and asp.net 3.5. I have vs installed on the production server. If I set the start option for the site to "use default web server" when I go to debug my website vs tries to open the site at http://localhost:4579/project and returns 404. If I set start option to "us...
On a class library project, I set the "Start Action" on the Debug tab of the project properties to "Start external program" (NUnit in this case). I want to set an environment variable in the environment this program is started in. How do I do that? (Is it even possible?) EDIT: It's an environment variable that influences all .NET apps ...
Is there a way to trigger a garbage collection in a .NET process from another process or from inside WinDBG? There are the Managed Debugging Assistants that force a collection as you move across a native/managed boundary, and AQTime seems to have button that suggests it does this, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it. ...
I'm looking into adding some features to an open source packages and I would like to know your advices, experiences at "getting into" other people's code. I obviously already did the following, reading the most relevant part of the code, step debugging, having a good knowledge of the data* processed , generated documentation & graph thr...
I am working on an application that installs a system wide keyboard hook. I do not want to install this hook when I am running a debug build from inside the visual studio (or else it would hang the studio and eventually the system), and I can avoid this by checking if the DEBUG symbol is defined. However, when I debug the release versio...
Does anyone know of a really good editor to debug JavaScript (other then Visual Studio 2008 and FireBug)? ...
Is the an easy way of finding out the host name of a machine than generated a user mode dump file via WinDbg? Or at least any piece of identifying information to try and confirm that two dump files came from the same system. ...
I'm wanting to get the full value of a char[] variable in the VC6 watch window, but it only shows a truncated version. I can copy the value from a debug memory window, but that contains mixed lines of hex and string values. Surely there is a better way?? ...
What is this offset hex value? ...
I'm working on a WPF application that sometimes exhibits odd problems and appears to hang in the UI. It is inconsistent, it happens in different pages, but it happens often enough that it is a big problem. I should mention that it is not a true hang as described below. My first thought was that the animations of some buttons was the p...
What is the syntax and which namespace/class needs to be imported? Give me sample code if possible. It would be of great help. ...
If I have a std::vector or std::map variable, and I want to see the contents, it's a big pain to see the nth element while debugging. Is there a plugin, or some trick to making it easier to watch STL container variables while debugging (VS2003/2005/2008)? ...
I would like to use the Logger tool that ships with the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows. However, on Vista it crashes even with built-in Vista applications: > logger calc or > logger notepad The issue occurs if I run the tool from a command prompt with or without administrator rights. I'm using version 3.01 (3/20/2008). T...
I know there's no standard C function to do this. I was wondering what are the techniques to to this on Windows and *nix? (Windows XP is my most important OS to do this on right now.) Thanks for the help! ...
for e.g from command prompt I need to launch the exe with some switch flags under debugger. How do I do it? This is an exe from c/c++ and built using VS2005 environment that I need debug. I pass some flags to this exe to perform some stuff. ...
VB.Net has a the very handy "with" statement, but it also lets you use it on an unnamed variable, like this: With New FancyClass() .Level = "SuperSpiffy" .Style = Slimming .Execute() End With Is there a way to get at the "hidden" instance, so I can view it's properties in the Immeidate window? I doubt I'll get it in the w...
In general, I occasionally have a chain of nested macros with a few preprocessor conditional elements in their definitions. These can be painful to debug since it's hard to directly see the actual code being executed. A while ago I vaguely remember finding a compiler (gcc) flag to expand them, but I had trouble getting this to work in ...
We make heavy use of Velocity in our web application. While it is easy to debug the Java side of things and ensure the Velocity Context is populated correctly, it would be extremely valuable to be able to step through the parsing of the VTL on the merge step, set breakpoints, etc. Are there any tools or IDEs/IDE plugins that would make...
Here's the last few frames of a typical Ruby on Rails traceback: And here are the last few frames of a typical Nevow traceback in Python: It's not just the web environment either, you can make similar comparisons between ipython and irb. How can I get more of these sorts of details in Ruby? ...
It seems like you could use a mashup of Relector and a Debugger to be able to debug any .NET app WITHOUT having the source code at all. Is this possible? Has anyone seen this before? ...