Debugging – Low Level Software Analysis

Anybody there? Yeah I know, it’s been a while… Unfortunately in my current position I haven’t had one single opportunity to debug applications, which is why I’ve not been writing new blog articles. I have to admit I miss troubleshooting and debugging applications a lot! Hope to do that soon again.

However, recently there have been teammates asking me to give a presentation about debugging, so I took the opportunity to get back into the game. ;-)

My audience was composed of engineers with strong infrastructure skills (Network/Windows/SQL Server) and great at thinking high level (architecture, big picture).

Likewise, most don’t have a background in development, so my goal was not to teach debugging or reverse engineering but to:

-  Demonstrate the power of debugging.

-  Demonstrate the importance of thinking low level while debugging.

By that I mean the importance of thinking in terms of the application internals and sometimes at the machine code level.

more here...........http://blogs.msdn.com/b/debuggingtoolbox/archive/2014/05/13/debugging-low-level-software-analysis.aspx

and

powerpoint slides here......http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-postattachments/00-10-52-50-75/Debugging-Overview.pptx