Archive for the 'Debugging' Category

Debugging more efficiently

This is one of those gems that I read about quite a while ago but never used. Especially when working with multiple threads this technique is almost indispensable. How I ever made it before I don’t know.
If you’ve ever debugged your app (and I hope you have), there are few things more irritating than stepping [...]

Making Lookout work with Outlook 2007

This article is service 2 purposes:

To provide a solution to those wanting to use the Outlook add-in Lookout in Outlook 2007.
To introduce the companion to this site, a far overdue task.

For most, if you’re reading this article, you’ve been a long-time user of Lookout, an indexing / search add-in for Outlook that packs [...]

Analyzing Windows crash dump files

My shiny new Vista laptop has been crashing on almost a daily basis lately. Being a developer, this is unacceptable. There’s nothing like losing an hour’s worth of coding that you’ll never write the same way again. After getting fed up, I decided to do something about it. Blue screen’s suck. Plain and simple. They [...]