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Why use windbg vs the Visual Studio (VS) debugger ?
I Use Visual Studio 2005 for C++ development.
What does WinDbg give me, that Visual Studio doesn't?
I know its good for client installations and remote debugging, as it's easy to ...
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WinDbg can be ....
From Wiki :
WinDbg can be used Debugger.
Visual Studio doesn't allows that.
Just write .symopt+0x40 in command line.
In WinDbg you could force to load PDB file that has incompatible (with EXE) checksum/date.
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What are the major reasons for using Windbg vs the Visual Studio debugger?
Edit: and is it commonly used as a complete replacement for the VS debugger, or more for when the need arises.
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If broken it is, fix it you should has a bunch of WinDbg/Sos related articles, mainly around remote debugging....
If you are wondering why you should use windbg over Visual Studio, then you need to read .
Kernel mode.
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I have come to realize that Windbg is a very powerful debugger for the Windows platform & I learn something new about it once in a while. Can fellow Windbg users share some of their mad skills?
ps: I am not looking for a nifty command, those can be found...
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Having the currect numbers you can then use windbg's .heap -fltMy favorite....
Instead use DebugDiags memory reporting.
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Do not use Windbg .heap -stat command, it will sometimes give you incorrect output.
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First let me say I am a total WinDbn noob, so this might be an easy question...
I have an application ("MyApp" - name changed to protect the innocent!) that I am trying to debug because it is throwing an exception. This only happens on user machines -...
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If you believe the PDB should be in your symbol path, you should run something....
And it guesses wrong by following a misleading path.
Debugger walks the stack backwards, starting from the top, that's why you're.
Does not quite work.
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Hi,
I am using a third party closed source API which throws an exception stating that "all named pipes are busy".
I would like to debug this further (rather than just stepping through) so I can actually learn what is happening under the covers.
I have...
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I assume that the 3rd party dll is native (Otherwise, just use Reflector)
Before using....
If you want a quick reference to WinDbg I'd recommend to the named pipe at the same time.
Get, you should follow a different direction.
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One of our customers reported a crash. She saw the standard error message after an unhandled exception:
"Application has generated an exception that could not be handled... Click OK to terminate the application. Click CANCEL to debug the application."...
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You should first set the context to the exception context:
.ecxr
Then make sure you have a sympath:\<cache>\sym*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
These steps should ensure you get a correct native stack from k , which should....
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While my .Net 3.5 app was running, the Windows Task Manager shown that my app had 16 threads. I collected a memory dump for the process and opened it using WinDbg/SOS.
Running the !threads command reveals that I have :
ThreadCount: 456 UnstartedThread...
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It is hard to tell....
The output from !threads shows a lot of dead of threads .
If you use the ~ command in WinDbg you will see all thread threads for the process.
!threads reports the number of managed threads.
Of threads for your process.
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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...
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For WinDbg, the simplest way to....
Using this approach should guarantee debugger (we use Visual Studio and WinDbg) to look in that path.
And then use -y WinDbg command line option to locate these files.
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I have a Winform application (C#) which imports some functions from dll.
Sometimes when running the application i get the following exception:
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that...
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Guess, it's .NET's culture.dll , and Windbg is reading the 'cult' part of that as the timestamp
(That's telling Windbg to run until the DLL is unloaded, and then dump the stack)
Run for a bit to let the module unload, and execute the following....
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Hello everyone,
I am debugging a crash dump of managed code, when using !threads to show all threads here, a couple of threads has Exception field value with various exceptions.
My question is how to identify which exception is the root exception which...
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Feel free to comment and share more data based on the steps... .
That should get you most of the way..
Also you can run !clstack to get to dump the (!PrintException) output .
You should see a call to RaiseException() in the native callstack.
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