Easy Setup of Remote Debugging

I just lose and find back this link everytime.

At http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=645 you can find a good way to setup debug DLLs on remote debugging machines.

Very useful.

February 24, 2010 | Filed Under C++, Programming, Win32 | Comments Off 

AeroCycle applet

I’ve released a small applet to cycle aero on/off.. reasons why and applet, here.

December 28, 2008 | Filed Under .NET, Code Snippets, Rants, Software releases, Win32 | Comments Off 

Porting .NET app to Vista.. DEP strikes!

An interesting issue happened these days when I tried to port some apps to Vista.

Basically all .NET apps compiled with Visual Studio 2005/2008 are marked “NX compatible” by default. If your .NET app uses an incompatible DLL or COM object, the app will crash. What I found funny was that the message was a standard access violation error instead of a more specific DEP error.

Debugging it was not easy: I was unable to step through the code in VS2005 and using WinDbg wasn’t much of help too, except that the line where it crashed was something like a mov [esp+24h], constant with ESP well within limits — an instruction which should not generate an access violation exception given the current ESP value.  At that point I was starting to think that my “attempt to read or write protected memory“ was, in fact, something else.

Luckily my mind went to DEP and in less than 1 minute of Google search I was able to find this link with a good solution.

I tried, without much faith, and it worked. And the C# app was finally working on Vista.

November 22, 2008 | Filed Under .NET, C++, Programming, Security, Win32 | Comments Off 

Vista and Visual Studio Remote Debugger

If you want to run Remote Debugger under Windows Vista you might encounter problems with the firewall.

Check this : http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/03/14/visual-studio-2005-remote-debugging-to-vista.aspx

Also, you can run Remote debugger without installing Visual Studio 2005, just by copying the files.

March 20, 2007 | Filed Under C++, Programming, Win32 | Comments Off 

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