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Advanced Windows Debugging
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Advanced Windows Debugging

by Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
October 2007
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
21h 8m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. Introduction to the Debuggers

The software debugging process has different meanings, depending on the programming language used to create the product, as well as the situation at hand and the developer’s experience. Although some developers are still debugging by using extensive console printouts or analyzing verbose logging files, most are using a specialized tool: a debugger.

This chapter focuses on the Debugging Tools for Windows, freely available from Microsoft Corporation. It contains several debuggers, which we describe shortly. Why are those debuggers so important?

The Windows debuggers are enhanced in parallel with the Windows development process since they are used to debug each operating system version. As a result, they ...

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