There has been a problem with the binaries generated by our build system (the importance of continuous and complete validation before releasing any update should not be underestimated ). The sources on Codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/AWD) has been corrected and updated binaries can be downloaded from the following location: ...

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 opens/interprets each packet received by the networking ...

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 revision control server hosted on public location and I was surprised by the number of options ...

You should register the server application and the proxy stub DLL. The registration co mmand line as shown on the page 3 of chapter 7. 08comsrv.exe /RegServerregsvr32 08comps.dll Daniel

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. Don't forget to check out the external links, they are very informative. Do ...

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 to a 2x16 characters display. As you can see after few days of "debugging", the ...

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, previously spent on the book project, I never thought that it will be hard to find time for ...

Hi Brian, Thank you for reporting this issue. Dr. Watson is an accepted nickname for the Windows Error Reporting (WER) technology since its introduction in windows XP. Not surprisingly the client side of WER in Windows XP and Windows 2003 is implemented in the DWwin.exe process. Data collection policy (the type of dump and additional system ...

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 different systems. However, the last update to Ethereal has been made in ...