Useful Debugging Tools

[gfthomas8]

Many forum participants could benefit (I know I do) from use of the following tools all are which are downloadable for free:

The latest (2.1) issue of Dependency Walker; its profiling feature is invaluable:

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Also filemon and regmon from SysInternals (from the 'Inside Windows 2000' guys):

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

HTH,
Gerry T.

[durisinm]

Gerry,

I haven't used these tools yet. Can you give a brief explanation about what they do?

Mike

[gfthomas8]

The simplest thing is to hit the links and read their author's descriptions. Each comes with online help. I find these tools to be extremely useful for spotting invalid paths, missing dll's etc., unhandled exceptions in 3rd party components, etc. Sometimes they overhelm so YMMV.

Enjoy,
Gerry T.