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Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
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Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) |
Author: Mario Hewardt
Published: 2007-11-08 |
List price: $59.99
Our price: $49.11
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Simply The Best!
This is hands down the best book I have ever seen on the topic of Windows debugging. Whether you are chasing tricky synchronization issues, reverse engineering, or probing for security flaws, you'll do well to have this one handy. A bit pricey perhaps, but worth every penny.
BUY THIS BOOK!
Simple review here:
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br /If you're a developer working on Windows who sometimes needs to debug and diagnose complex / intermittent app failures, BUY THIS BOOK!
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br /There is simply NO other book that delves so deeply into how to debug using WinDBG / KD and it'll be some time until someone creates a book that supersedes this one.
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br /Very well written and containing information that would normally take YEARS to come by on your own, this book will save you MONTHS of hard work.
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br /BUY IT NOW!
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A 'Must Have' for serious programmers
If you do nothing more than read the initial 4 chapters you will probably learn something. If you can get through Part II and Part III you will improve your knowledge of Windows programming and good general debugging techniques no matter how experienced you are. This is one every developer should have sitting by his PC.
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The best book written on Windows Debugging
This book provides excellent coverage of the subject. I found it to be accurate and to contain the details I needed.
Unequaled
I have little to add to the effusive praise of previous reviewers. This is a one-of-kind book. An instant classic.
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br /Beware, however. As others have noted, this is definitely an _advanced_ book. If you're not comfortable with arcane command syntax, bits and bytes, and such this will be painful to incomprehensible for you. On the other hand, I dare say you will never be a true Master Debugger until you have a good grasp of this material.
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br /You would do well to start with Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications or the now-unavailable Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows. Both will give you an easier introduction to WinDbg. The latter, older volume has much more information on native code debugging than the newer version. As they also cover the Visual Studio debugger in detail, most developers need go no further than one of these.
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br /Note that WinDbg _can_ be used with SOS and ADPlus to do some pretty fancy .NET debugging that isn't possible with Visual Studio alone. For that matter, the .NET CLR on Windows is implemented using the same Windows API as any native application. I've seen WinDbg used to trace bugs through C# application code down to find that the defect was actually in the CLR or Windows itself. John Robbins (author of the previously mentioned books) states in Chapter 6 of the latest version that "in our consulting work at Wintellect, which as you know works on the toughest bugs, we use WinDBG nearly 70 percent of the time."
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br /Don't ignore this book just because you program in .NET!
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br /Watch out for the font used in the listings though. Not being a master myself, I've been stumped for quite a while because the letter 'l' looks like the number '1' in the font they use. (I've been assiduously following the examples line-by-line).
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br /I also recall being stumped because of an error or two in the text, though I admit I can't find them now. These as you can imagine could be a serious problem given the arcane and undocumented nature of quite a bit of the material. Just make sure you check the errata periodically. Ironically, the errata web page for the book is not functioning at the moment...
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