Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) | Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat | Essential for any serious debugging effort on Windows.

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	Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 - 840 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A must have book for windows developers.

As a technical supervisor, one of the biggest problems I have is training our development teams in the use of the various debugging tools available. I purchased a copy of this book hoping it would help me in that training, and I was not disappointed.

This book goes far beyond my expectations and provides insight into not only the use of the various debuggers, explaining how to set breakpoints and analyze memory locations, but it also goes into detail on how to debug some of the more insidious problems common to developers.

The chapters on thread synchronization and stack and heap corruptions are excellent and provide invaluable insight into debugging these common problems. But more than that, the book outlines and gives instructions on using some of the lesser known debugging aids, such as the application verifier and the leak diagnosis tool, as well as writing your own debugger extensions.

There is a chapter on post-mortem debugging, which goes into detail on using crash dump files, instructions on obtaining information from the Windows reporting service and a chapter on managing symbol and source files.

Finally, there are chapters on debugging Vista applications, security problems, and interprocess communications.

The authors are clearly masters of debugging windows applications, and this book stands alone in the field.

I am a senior C++ engineer with over ten years of experience writing applications for windows and linux, and I found new information in every chapter, all of it easy to understand and well written.

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Essential for any serious debugging effort on Windows.

I could not wait to get a copy of it and so far the book has exceeded my expectations. The book is a great companion to Windows Internals series. The debugging tips and tricks provided are invaluable when doing any serious development of Windows software, including development for x64 and Windows Vista. Debugging is somehow an arcane art, better learned by looking over people's shoulders. Many thanks to the authors for taking time to share their knowledge and fill in an important gap in the technical literature. Right on.

Great even for experienced debuggers

I'm still reading this book, but at this point I can tell you this is the best debugging book focused on native code that I ever read! And I've read a ton of debugging books, perhaps all the debugging books available!
I'm really impressed, this book is superb.

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One of the best books ever on Windows Debugging

I've been using the Windows Debuggers for a long time now and I found myself an expert and I am regarded as such at my working place where I actively push the use of windbg and friends for trouble solving.
This book however shows that even experts can gain a new level of debugging tips and tricks.
This is not a one of many books on this topic but one that stands out with head and shoulders.
A definately must have for those who do serious debug work, both on kernel and user level debugging!

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