Hi Community,

This post is about some of the tools I use when building stuff or diagnosing misbehaving applications, so I thought it’d come handy to have them, or learn about them [in case you don’t know them]

• Process Explorer
• Process Monitor
• Visual SOS Extension – It’s also documented here
• DebugView
• Autoruns
• WinDBG
• PerfView
• DebugDiag
• Network Monitor 3.4 [archive]
• Fiddler
• Message Analyzer
• Spy++
• XAML Spy – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• CLR Profiler
• NDepend –  Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• CppCat –  Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• Dependency Walker
• CppDepend – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• Visual Assist X – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• Red Gate’s Reflector
• JetBrain’s dotPeek
• JetBrain’s Resharper – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• JetBrain’s dotCover – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• JetBrain’s dotTrace  – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• JetBrain’s dotMemory – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• Detours Library
• GhostDoc – Big kudos to them for providing MVPs with a free license
• Application Verifier
• Memory Inspector – My own tool and Visual Studio add-in
• Windows Performance Recorder

I would also like to recommend the following blog post published by my good friends at toptal. It is a hiring guide that will help you identify C++ programmers who not only know the basics, but also understand its relevant concepts in-depth and know their way around the various challenges and pitfalls of this powerful programming language.

Regards,

Angel

---

Filed under: Microsoft - @ February 9, 2015 1:42 am

Tags: .NET, Tools, Visual C++, Visual Studio, Win32, WinDbg