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I am working in VS 2010 on a WinForms application for which the debugger has suddenly stopped being useful: specifically, user-unhandled managed exceptions fail to be caught (regardless of the ...

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...

Another short tip, but, potentially the best one you'll ever get (at least, from me). When you're debugging and you get an exception, always, always, always click on the View Details link to open the ...

Bug tracking is often one of the most difficult processes in software development. Users may have situations different from developers, and bugs that are a big problem for users may not even be ...

Static analysis finds the bugs, even if you're working under an Agile development process. Here's when and where to use static analysis. It's close to midnight and after hours of debugging you've ...

Apache Struts, the web application framework, helps developers get Java web apps up and running in next to no time, using a Model-View-Controller framework. One important part of creating a great app ...

Editor’s Note: Lauro Rizzatti went to Russell Klein, director of engineering at Mentor Graphics and a hardware emulation expert, to learn more about hybrid emulation. This column is co-authored by the ...