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WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises

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The analogy between learning a complex tool with its own language and a foreign natural language has been developed further after the release of WinDbg Learning Cards and finally culminated in “WinDbg In Use” book series with the first book to be published during the 1st quarter of 2009:

Title: WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises (Elementary and Intermediate Level)
Author: Dmitry Vostokov
Publisher: Opentask (15 March 2009)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.1
ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-50-6
Paperback: 200 pages
Book Annotation: Includes 60 programmed exercises from real life debugging and crash dump analysis scenarios and multiple-choice questions with full answers, comments and suggestions for further reading.

Some example exercises will be published on this blog from time to time. I also plan a corresponding column in the forthcoming Debugged! magazine.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -