straight forward explainations on debugging windows programs
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is the first book I've found that explains Windows debugging in plain English. And although there are some things I didn't like about the book, it is at least very easy to read and follow.The book does a good job in explaining the overall debugging environment, beginning with the software design phase. There are plenty of good nuggets of information on this subject-- no project manager should be without this. The book does a very good job of dicussing how to use existing tools to discover bugs, and then how to handle them. For example, there is a information on using the GetLastError() function, which I personally had never used. This gives you a text message for a generic error code, making debugging a lot easier to understand.Other topics I found useful were how to use the debugging tools that ship with Visual C++, plus those from 3rd. party vendors. I found this very helpful in selecting which tools we should use for our projects. Also, known compiler bugs are covered; I wish the book would have covered more of these, but you can't have everything. I heartily recommend this one.
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