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Visual Studio 2011 IDE advancements

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New Visual Studio is around the corner. Microsoft Corporate Division VC, Somasegar has given a sneak peak to new IDE features in his blog.

I find this is promising. Especially, with Visual Studio 2010, we’ve found completely revamped architecture for extending Visual Studio. On the other hand, Whole Tomato is a company, which had shown what customers really wanted out of Visual Studio. Their Visual Assist X plugin is an excellent piece of art. There are other famous guys who sells similar softwares like DevExpress. But I personally prefer VA, because it’s light weight and not leaving much confusions with cluttered interfaces like others.

Visual Studio Power Tools is another awesome free option to improve your productivity. But I believe Microsoft can do well with their IDEs. Ever since Visual Studio 2003, we’ve not gained anything better out of Microsoft IDEs. Almost 8 years, though Microsoft has introduced a bunch of technologies and language improvements especially for C#, the IDE remains a substandard for the world’s biggest developer community.

Visual Studio 2011 is a positive improvement where the art of search with regular expression integrated well with to find information quickly.

Read the full scoop here in Soma’s blog

 

WinDBG: How to list call stack of all threads in managed dump/application?

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Even before analyzing the dump using !analyze with a crash/hang dump, I really wanted to see all threads call stack in a single shot. Mostly I use ~*kb to list the call stack with all threads for a native application/dump with WinDBG.

But WinDBG and .NET call stacks aren’t in a good sync. We will have to load SOS.dll or SOSEX.dll to get better help with debugging.

You can use !EEStack of SOS.dll to display call stack of all threads.


.load C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\SOS.dll
!EEStack

 

Download Managers for Ubuntu

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I left Download managers long time as the Firefox or even chrome (though it doesn’t support resume in a good way) is reliable enough. But recently on downloading Windows 8 Developer preview image I was a bit skeptical on using the built-in download manager of Firefox especially because of slow Internet connection I have.

gwget (have your heard of old wget utility?) and uget are the popular download managers available for Ubuntu Linux. gwget is a classic download manager. It’s doesn’t have much flashy features. It simply works. On the other hand uget is also available for free which has lot of additional features we’re looking for.

You can see the features in the respective websites

UGet Features
gwget features

Install gwget

sudo apt-get install gwget

Install uget

sudo apt-get install uget