Debugging “of today reminds one of the Tower of Babel, for few” engineers “can follow profitably the” internals of components “other than their own, and even there they sometimes made to feel like strangers.”
George Sarton, The Study of the History of Mathematics
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This new book will be published later this year:
Although it is featured in Microsoft .NET Development Series I believe that it might be very interesting read for both unmanaged and managed code developers and escalation engineers. Understanding concurrency and having the ability to see its patterns is the crucial skill for crash dump analysis and debugging of complex software issues. I pre-ordered it myself and write a review once it is in print.
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Due to demand from people that prefer ebooks I published Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1 in a digital format that can be purchased in Crash Dump Analysis Store. This format has color pictures inside.
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I’m very proud to announce that it is finally available in both paperback and hardback. Why have I made available both editions? Because I personally prefer hardcover books. You can order the book today and it will be printed in 3-5 days (paperback) or 5-10 days (hardcover) and sent to you:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1
Note: although listed on Amazon and other online bookstores it is not immediately available at these stores at the moment due to the late submission. I apologize for this. However, I expect that in a few weeks pre-orders taken there will be eventually fulfilled. In the mean time, if you want the book now, you can use the link above.
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Born out of 2008 April Fool’s joke (although I was thinking about it long before) the idea is to have a general framework and associated IDE for analysis activities for various tools that produce logs. Similar to planned GUI Monitor integrating WindowHistory, MesageHistory and ScreenHistory tools but also including Debugger Log Analyzer, Debugging Notebooks, various memory and trace log visualization subsystems. It also has the working title UTF (Unified Tools Framework).
Seems I’m very easy on inceptions 
All this will be covered in great detail in the forthcoming book which I tirelessly advertise:
DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting Tools
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Although the first volume has not been published yet (scheduled for 15th of April, 2008) the planning for the second volume has already begun. Preliminary information is:
Hardcover version is also planned. PDF version will be available for download too.
(*) subject to change
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Why do we need yet another book about device drivers? There are couple of reasons here:
Old books are more about developing the narrow range of legacy drivers than troubleshooting and debugging them.
New books shift towards WDF and ignore legacy drivers.
Windows Internals book is too big and something lightweight is desperately needed.
No published driver books use UML as communication device and discuss driver developement as software factory.
Existing books mostly view device drivers as hardware device drivers.
I started collecting and organizing information about Windows drivers 2 years ago and published a few selected materials so you can get an approximate flavour of what is expected in the forthcoming book scheduled for the next year:
(*) subject to change
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This is a forthcoming book about .NET debugging seen in a wider context than .NET runtime environment (CLR). There is the whole new generation of .NET software developers, designers and architects thinking in terms of managed code and associated concepts. However CLR runs in unmanaged environment which finally interfaces with native code. Therefore understanding unmanaged and native code is vital for successful debugging of real customer problems. Preliminary information is:
(*) subject to change
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Finally release dates are set for the following two books:
DebugWare: The Art and Craft of Writing Troubleshooting Tools
The latter book will be shorter than planned initially and will contain references to Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume I and Volume II.
(*) subject to change
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Tons of PPTs based on Windows Internals book and David Solomon Expert Seminars. All can be found here:
The Windows Operating Systems Internals Curriculum Resource Kit
Lots of other materials including Windows Core Architecture by Dave Probert can be found here too:
Academic Resource Center - Operating Systems
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