Community Resources: Visual Studio 2010 Debugger

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First Read:

Before starting, you’d better go through following links and get a general idea about what’s new in VS 2010 Debugger. 

What's New in the Visual Studio Debugger

A quick tour of VS 2010 debugger new features in MSDN library.

 

[Video] Debugger Enhancements and Improvements

Take a look at some new enhancements and improvements made to the debugger and debugging experience in Visual Studio 2010. It includes:

[2:10] - Sticky Data Tips
[3:13] - Adding more values (including notes) to data tips
[4:44] - Breakpoints Window enhancements
[8:04] - Export and Import of Breakpoints and Data Tips
[10:40] - Threads Window enhancements
[14:39] - Dump debugging improvements
[24:50] - Integrated IL Interpreter

 

VS 2010 BETA 2 DEBUGGER IN-DEPTH FIRST LOOK by John Robbins

A first look to VS 2010 debugger new features by John Robbins.

 

IntelliTrace

(Previously Called Historical Debugging)

Debugging With IntelliTrace

Full MSDN documentation about IntelliTrace. It contains most of the information you want about IntelliTrace.

 

IntelliTrace Info by Ian Huff

Wonderful blog about the new IntelliTrace debugging features in Visual Studio. Some insightful articles about IntelliTrace details:

 

VS 2010 BETA 2 INTELLITRACE IN-DEPTH FIRST LOOK by JOHN ROBBINS

An in-depth article by John Robbins about IntelliTrace. Along with his previous article: HOW DOES VS2010 HISTORICAL DEBUGGING WORK, it will help you understand how IntelliTrace works under the hood.

 

[Video] Advanced Diagnostics, IntelliTrace™ and Test Automation by Habib Heydarian

A great video about how to use IntelliTrace and test automation.

Habib also has a great blog about IntelliTrace.

 

Parallel Debugging

Debugging Task-Based Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 2010

Great getting started article in MSDN magazine.

Author Daniel Moth also collected a bunch of resources to learn Parallel Debugging include screencasts and blog posts.

 

MSDN Articles about Parallel Debugging:

Walkthrough: Debugging a Parallel Application

Using the Parallel Tasks Window

Using the Parallel Stacks Window

 

DataTips

How to: Use DataTips

Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger

 

Debugging Dump with Visual Studio

[Video] Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010

In this video Tess shows me how to debug a dump of an ASP.NET Web Site with a pile of awesome and totally new features in Visual Studio 2010.

 

If you found any question about VS 2010 Debugger, please post it to Visual Studio Debugger Forum.

We will regularly update this list to add top community resources. Last update date: 3/17/2010

 

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