Summary

  • Microsoft provides built-in utilities and diagnostic applications to help monitor, troubleshoot, and debug errant running applications or services.

  • Task Manager and Perfmon (System Monitor) are extremely important in monitoring and troubleshooting applications that may have memory, CPU, or other resource-related issues.

  • Microsoft Debugging Tools and Microsoft Visual Studio provide extensive, real-time debugging utilities and processes for debugging your application or service. Support for these tools can be found at http://www.microsoft.com, http://support.microsoft.com, and http://msdn.microsoft.com.

  • Debugging applications or services at a low level requires practice and understanding of the technologies and utilities used for debugging. ...

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