June 04, 2004

New version of WinDbg Out

Oh man am I ever happy with the new changes in WinDbg.

If you write any sort of kernel code, you NEED to upgrade to the new version. (Unless of course you are harnessed to SoftIce that is) The updated UI is REALLY nice... almost Visual Studio like even.

Here is a list of some of the changes in the Debugging Tools for Windows:

  • Now supports Longhorn
  • New user interface (UI) management capabilities in WinDbg
  • Made many improvements to the !analyze extension
  • Improved extension interface documentation (debugext.chm).
  • Execute a series of debugger commands programmatically or create a more complicated "program" using flow control. This allows you to conditionally execute commands or even pipe the output of one command into another. New control flow tokens include .foreach, .do, .for, .while, .if, .elsif, .else, .catch, .break, .continue, and .leave. Aliases are used as the "local variables" in these programs SWEET!!
  • Multiple new options in setting aliases

WinDbg now features enhanced UI management capabilities. Support for window docking, window tear-off and window tabs has been added to allow users more flexibility in configuring the user interface. Here is a screenshot of my new default layout (of course there is nothing attached, so you can't see any src code):

Time to upgrade? I think so. Go get your free copy here.

Posted by SilverStr at June 4, 2004 05:23 PM | TrackBack