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August 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:15 AM

Halo 2: Will it impact Microsoft Productivity?

The "Official Xbox Magazine" says in the October issue that 8,000 Microsoft employees are participating in the Halo 2 beta, 14% of the entire company. That's an amazing number! What does this mean for general Microsoft productivity right after November
Posted by andypennell | 9 Comments
Friday, August 20, 2004 1:20 PM

Windows XP SP2 and the Visual Studio Debugger

Oh what fun XP SP2 was for the debugger team! The firewall defaulting to On obviously completely broke Remote Debugging, and the DCOM changes broke it even more. Kept us busy for a long time. Well Gregg , mostly. The results are threefold: A new KB 841177
Posted by andypennell | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:46 PM

Magic Tricks with DLL Forwarders

Thought I would share a DLL trick we used in the VS 2003 debugger that illustrates how a DLL with no real code or data can be very useful, especially if your exe is pretending to be something it is not. VS 2003 has the ability to load windbg extension
Posted by andypennell | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:30 PM

Shocking news: Google can't find something

We have a little known feature in the debugger so I wanted to see where, if anywhere, it is documented, so naturally I used Google. It can't find it. Not because it doesnt exist, but because the thing I am looking for is “.load” : yes, that's
Posted by andypennell | 8 Comments
 
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