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Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:41:15 +0000

@Mehdi: I’m sure that would work, but it requires you to change your source code. Just adding “NtUser” to the name is much easier if it works – if it doesn’t, your method would be very useful!

Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Mehdi

Mehdi — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:25:25 +0000

Why dont take the function adress directly: declare a pointer to the api function where you want to put the breakpoint, in this case:

BOOL (*ptFunction)(HWND) = ::LockWindowUpdate ;

then debug your program, in the watch take the value of ptFunction and add it in the “Break at Function” dialog

Comment on Entrian Source Search 1.3.11: Fonts and encodings by Entrian Source Search 1.3.11: Fonts and encodings

Entrian Source Search 1.3.11: Fonts and encodings — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:24:29 +0000

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Comment on Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:00:48 +0000

Hi Rakesh,

I’ve only ever used Purify with executables created with Visual Studio 2005, but I’ve no reason to believe it won’t work with 2008 as well.

You can get a free trial here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rpp/

Comment on Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work by Rakesh

Rakesh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:00:55 +0000

Hi
Can you please tell, which version of Rational Purify (or Rational Rose Enterprise Edition) is compatible with Visual Studio 2008?
Can i get trial version for that? if yes Where?

Thanks

Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Innes

Innes — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:49:46 +0000

…and I got it working.

I guess I should have read the words ‘native only’ on the MS page, and actually paid attention!

Comment on Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll by Innes

Innes — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:19:08 +0000

I want to do this kind of thing at the moment. When reading about the facility, I immediately thought “I’ll be amazed if this works”, and sure enough it doesn’t. I tried your ‘SendMessage’ breakpoint but no dice. I wonder what I could be doing wrong. The MS page on this is of course not much use: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d16ayc6z.aspx

Comment on The 30 day product challenge: ClickStop by Design day (28 days to go)

Design day (28 days to go) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:43:37 +0000

[...] Richie Hindle has posted up detail on his latest product – ClickStop. A product intended to allow a parent to block certain keystrokes and demarcate boundaries of the desktop primarily so that children can use a software application (like Paint Shop Pro) without ruining Windows! There are competitors in this space, but all block user action so as to use their own kiddie-entertaining software. None allow you to block actions to use a software product only you want. His software could find use in trade shows and schools too. [...]

Comment on Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work by Jeff Rhyason

Jeff Rhyason — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:16:51 +0000

I agree, the help system really leaves you wanting. Thanks for writing this article!

Comment on Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that. by Richie Hindle

Richie Hindle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:52 +0000

@Steve: Ah, thanks! Cheers to Microsoft for fixing it (but boos for breaking it in Vista).