Managed debugging with WinDbg

This is surely no surprise for many people: you can actually debug managed code with WinDbg (or CDB, if you prefer that one) by using the SOS extension (that ships with the .Net framework) in the debugger. What’s new is that today, Microsoft released Psscor2 which is pretty much an enhanced version of SOS. Now I’m sure that you’ll soon find much information on using Psscor2 on Tom’s blog. I’m much in favor of Psscor2 myself and therefore I’ll try to post useful scripts here as well (if I can come up with some ;-)).

Here’s to … changes

I decided to start with a new series of posts (oh well, I guess it’ll turn out later if it’s really going to be a series) of Here’s to … Xyz posts to praise (or slam; go figure it out!) stuff.

So here’s to changes. If someone told me a year ago where I would be in a year and what I would be doing, I would have smiled at them and thought something like ‘Yeah, whatever.’ But here I am: After almost 4 years in Microsoft’s Development Center in Zurich, Switzerland I decided to pursue new opportunities and to move to Redmond in the state of Washington, where I am now working as part of the Windows Services and Content team in the Windows client organization. Which gets me right to the point: Changes. For me this really was a big change and so far I think it was well worth it. I have to admit though, that I did underestimate the work and stress invovled in the relocation (and I’m not completely done yet). On the other hand, what I gained so far already is priceless. So maybe in a year from now, you should ask me what I think about this. And maybe I’ll still tell you the same thing. Changes can be a good thing, if you give it a try.