Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
More on SoftIce, from one of its parents
Frank Grossman, one of the original authors of SoftIce and owners of NuMega sent this around to some...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/11/2006
x64 Article is available online now
In a nice twist, I recently learned that my x64 article for MSDN magazine is online now. In a...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/10/2006
R.I.P. SoftICE
A sad, sad day... As of April 3rd, 2006 the DriverStudio product family has retired. For customer...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/07/2006
My X64 Programming article for MSDN is finally out
You can see a pretty picture of what the MSDN cover looks like here:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/06/2006
Now Officially Middle Aged
Among this weekend's highlights Missing dinner with my beloved because of a bomb threat Turning 40...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/30/2006
Why can't I detach the debugger from an app?
An interesting internal thread on debugging went by, and it was news to me, so figured I'd share. In...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/12/2006
Comcast 8Mbps cable service
So last night I endured the 15 minute phone conversation with a Comcast rep to sign up for "Game...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/11/2006
Fun with SpyAxe
Normally I don’t hit by viruses. I’m very good with Windows Update and keeping the anti-virus...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/03/2006
One reason why I haven't been writing books
Charles Petzold's latest post on books as long format tutorials vs. reference material hits the nail...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 12/14/2005
VS debugger running slowly? Check your breakpoints!
If you're finding that the VS debugging seems to get slower and slower (especially when you first...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 12/07/2005
Silence is Golden
Many (most?) of the Developer Division folks were given the last three days of this week off to rest...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 10/28/2005
PDC05 - Amazing C++ futures talk
Just went to Herb Sutter's talk on C++ futures. Really rocking stuff! Check out the slides for...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/16/2005
PDC05 - I finally meet Raymond Chen
Last night was the "Ask the experts" event. A huge buffet dinner for everyone, with several dozen...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/16/2005
PDC05 - Windows Workflow Framework
Cool new technology I wasn't aware of. Imagine drawing out your workflow (both machine and human...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/14/2005
PDC05 - Rico Rocks on performance
Attended the lunchtime presentation by Rico Mariani on writing faster managed code. The cool thing I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/14/2005
PDC05 - Come keep me busy - Ask debugging & Profiling questions
Just finished the keynote, followed by a quick spin around the exhibition hall. I'm in the Tools...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/13/2005
PDC05 - Wireless hell - A solution?
Been going batty trying to get my notebook to work DNS-wise with the wireless networks at the PDC....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
PDC05 - Power's back
I had faint hopes for a few seconds of being one of the first to blog about the power failure that...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
PDC05 - Arrival
The carpet in the "Tools and Languages" track lounge is unbelievably well padded. I think I could...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/12/2005
Finding me at the PDC
Just attended a meeting for all the PDC staff. Since the schedules and names are still up in the...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/08/2005
I'm going to the PDC!
I started my own personal campaign inside Microsoft to go to the PDC many months ago. It was close,...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 09/08/2005
Follow on to Raymond's post on Dr. Watson
Raymond's post on the history of Dr. Watson is right on the money. Some additional info, since I...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/10/2005
"Source Server" - The best "Hidden" feature in Whidbey Debugging
On the drive to work today, Chris Sells asked me what was new & cool with Whidbey debugging....
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/10/2005
A utility that rocks!
Somehow I've been under a rock, and just discovered this now:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 08/03/2005
Galapagos photos
For all those asking for pictures from my honeymoon in the Galapagos, I've posted them here:...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/26/2005
Where am I, and what's this ring on my finger?
A few non-technical posts going forward. The reason: This is my first week back in the office after...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 07/20/2005
The Innovation Tax
(Yep... it has been a long time since my last post.) Last week I was out at dinner with Barb,...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 06/08/2005
Quite possibly the best stack trace ever
Awhile back I wrote about "Matt's Huge Irritating Banner", in which I filled up a status window with...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 05/05/2005
A reader's comments on my ETW post
(Reposting this, as my original post seems to have vanished.) Awhile back, I wrote on producing ETW...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 05/05/2005
These specs are harder to find on the web than I thought
Someone recently wrote me, asking for the old CodeView format. I told him that it was readily...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/14/2005
Help tracking down Win32 SxS manifest issues
Today I had my first experience with using manifest files for Win32 binaries. If you're only...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/12/2005
Diagnosing DBGHELP symbol loading
I've had a love/hate relationship with DBGHELP.DLL for a long time, as reader of my MSDN column well...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/12/2005
My new toy
I was at the company store yesterday, and noticed the new Microsoft Fingerprint Reader, which was...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 04/06/2005
ETW Tracing: How and Why?
Awhile ago, I wrote about examining the structure of ETW Events by look at the MOF data in CIM...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 03/23/2005
The Debugger Rules
I alluded to some debugger cardinal rules in a prior post. However, they may well be something that...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/23/2005
Why does the PDB format change every release?
In another post, Steve Loughran asks "Why does the PDB format change every release? What is wrong...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/05/2005
More Windows x64 fun
I'm really getting a kick out of playing with Windows on x64. Since my last post, I've successfully...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/04/2005
Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) and Programs Using DBGHELP
Yesterday I spent a long time tracking down a problem with PDB symbol access. I figured I could...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/04/2005
A kid in a Win64 Candy Store
Just today I finally got a 64 bit version of Windows (the x64 flavor) going on my 2nd development...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 02/01/2005
Letting the debugger pick a debugging mode - Be cautious
The "Auto" feature in the Visual Studio debugger guesses (based on the EXE used to launch the...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/20/2005
Getting useful stack traces at exception time
One problem with debugging exceptions from a JIT attached debugger is that the call stack usually...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
Where, oh where are my bug fixes?
The Visual Studio and CLR teams are huge. If we were to all develop on the same code base...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
The "Matt's Huge Irritating Banner" Story
By special request, another story from way, way back. In the early days of NuMega, our UI work was...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/19/2005
File Handle Hell
Raymond Chen has an interesting post about a program that tried to open a file, got back an error...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/18/2005
My inner music geek thinks this is way cool
Just saw this: https://www.umixitmusic.com/ Basically, it provides you with the isolated audio tracks...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/14/2005
Debugging data driven development - Doable?
In a discussion with some architects yesterday, I came upon the point that a new form of debugging...
Author: Matt Pietrek Date: 01/06/2005