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We recently sat down with Charles over in Channel 9 and talked about the Advanced Windows Debugging book and its PDC 2008 session. Check it out at: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Advanced-Windows-Debugging-An-Introduction/ Cheers, Mario...
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The Professional Developer Conference 2008 is right around the corner! Almost a week jam packed with the latest and greatest technology talks and in depth information on what has and is brewing at Microsoft. I and Daniel have been asked to present a 6hr...
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Interested in joining Microsoft and the exciting world of online services. If so, my team is hiring -- feel free to send me your inquiry/resume (we have several positions open). ------ Software as a service (SaaS) is “the single biggest opportunity...
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The current stable release of Wireshark is 1.0.0. It supersedes all previous releases, including all releases of Ethereal. You can get it from many locations, check http://www.wireshark.org/download.html for details. Thanks to its authors. Because Wireshark...
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After making several changes to a software project, you begin to understand why a source revision control system is a necessity. This is even more important when more than one developer contributes to the same project. I looked for an inexpensive source...
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After reading a relatively old article published in Wired Magazine about few nasty software bugs, I searched for similar list on the Internet. Wikipedia has an impressive list of software bugs that moved from the bug tracking systems into the history....
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One of the projects I finished recently was to assembly a microcontroller board and written the "driver" for the small LCD screen. The board uses an RISC AVR-microcontroller from ATMEL (ATmega8) with only 8K FLASH and 1K RAM and is connected...
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A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to chat with the folks over at CS Techcast about Advanced Windows Debugging. It was an excellent discussion with a lot of interesting questions. Head over to http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=12 for...
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I have started this blog immediately after we finished all the reviews for Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) with the goal to supplement and correct, when necessary, the book content. With all the available hours,...
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One of the most intriguing command omissions from the native debugger package is that of being able to display extended security information (such as a security descriptor) on a kernel mode object from user mode via its associated user mode handle. The...
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The Microsoft company store in Redmond greatly expanded on their selection of technical books. As part of that expansion they brought in Advanced Windows Debugging. All books appear to be sold at a discount (range varies depending on the book)....
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Amazon is still reporting the book as being on pre-order. I've heard numerous accounts of buyers stating that they had received an email from Amazon that the book will be shipped on 12/17/2007 . This date is a misestimate as Amazon will be receiving...
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In chapter 13 of Advanced Windows Debugging we discussed the process by which a company can sign up for Windows Error Reporting. The WER service is a great mechanism to gauge the health of your application in the wild. It also allows you access to valuable...
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A network packet sniffer is a great tool for investigating network communication error. At the time of writing the book, Ethereal was one of the best tools network packet sniffer available and we used it to analyze the network communication between two...
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