In a relatively recent blog post, I discussed why I believe that more software developers should write blogs. In that post, I mentioned that I believe that some developers do not write blogs because ...

Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them. Bugs occur at two stages in a code's life: during development ...

Make it a habit to dig deeper and find more information about the issue before starting to debug a non-trivial issue. For example: is this a new problem? If so, starting when? Is this only visible to ...

Debugging design violations found by design rule checking (DRC) has always taken a significant share of the time needed to get a design to tapeout. And debug time only increases as the number and ...

When you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio, everything stops. If you'd rather other processes keep running, you can enable that. If you've set multiple start projects to run when you start debugging, ...

VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) is an interesting product that allows you to have a central management portal that can control an end user's desktop Group Policies and settings. While I was ...