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WaitForDebugEvent function, 172

WaitForSingleObject function, 585, 594–595

Walk Stack button (SUPERASSERT), 124

walking the stack

manually (disassembled code), 346–347

Stack Walking section (SUPERASSERT), 125

WDBG, symbols and, 200–208

Warn( ) (TraceContext.Trace), 146

Warning glyph (Breakpoints window), 216

warnings

managed code, 46–48

native code, 48–51

Watch windows (Visual Studio .NET debugger), 228–233

calling methods in, 230–232

expanding types automatically, 241–243, 283–291

native code, 280–291, 350

autoexpanding types, 283–291

formatting data and expression evaluation, 280–283

pseudoregisters, 283

timing code, 283

Set Next Statement command, 232–233

WDBG debugger, 190–210

breakpoints and single stepping, 195–200

debug symbols, 357, 362–366

future of, 211–212

reading and writing memory, 192–195

stepping functionality, 209–210

symbols and stack walking, 200–208

WDBG.EXE subsystem (WDBG), 192

web services, XML

assertions in, 103–113

physical access to binaries, 250

timeout exceptions, 249

tracing, 146–148

white space, trimming off files, 438–444

Whole Program Optimizations setting, 62

wild writes (memory), 700–701

Win32 Debugging API, 159

WinDBG (Microsoft Windows Debugger), 162, 353–404, 556

basic issues, 356–359

setting up, 357–359

unusual behaviors, 359

breakpoints, 379–382

memory access breakpoints, 381–382

command parameters, 362

command-line arguments, changing, 360

commands, types of, 361

control commands, 385–386

dump files, handling, 393–396

creating, 393–394

debugging, 396

opening, 395–396

evaluating variables, 372–373

exceptions and events, 382–384

executing, stepping, tracing, 373–378

extension commands, 386–393

loading and controlling, 387–388

with SOS (Son of Strike), 398–403

getting help, 361–362

processes and threads, 366–371

attaching to and detaching from processes, 369–371

creating processes in Command window, 369

debugging child processes, 366–367

viewing in Command window, 367–369

SOS extension support, 396–403

symbol handling, 357, 362–366

window placement, 359

Windows 2000 processes, detaching from, 299

Windows debuggers, 159–164

kernel-mode, 161–164

KD (kernel debugger), 162

SoftICE, 163–164

WinDBG (Windows Debugger). See WinDBG

MinDBG debugger, 171–190

user-mode debuggers, 159–160

WDBG debugger, 190–210

breakpoints and single stepping, 195–200

debug symbols, 357, 362–366

future of, 211–212

reading and writing memory, 192–195

stepping functionality, 209–210

symbols and stack walking, 200–208

writing your own, 210–211

Windows development resources, 761–769

Windows Forms assertions, 95–103

tracing, 144–146

Windows Me, implementing DeadlockDetection, 603–604

Windows operating system heap checking, 697–699

Windows services

basic characteristics, 566–568

API functions, 566–567

security, 568

debugging, 568–575

Allow Service To Interact With Desktop, 570

attaching to processes, 571–575

core code, 569

service identity, setting, 571

startup code, 575

wizards, 408

Woodring, Mike, 764

working set tuning, 723–747

SWS utility, 727–747

future of, 747

how to use, 728–733

implementing, 734–746

WST utility, 726

/Wp64 switch (CL.EXE), 60

Write( ) (Trace), 144, 146

WriteIf( ) (Trace), 144

WriteLine( ) (Trace), 144

WriteLineIf( ) (Trace), 144

WriteProcessMemory function, 176

writing debuggers, 210–211

writing to debugger memory (WDBG), 192–195

WST (Working Set Tuner) utility, 726

wt command (CORDBG.EXE), 244, 479

WT command (WinDBG), 374–378