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Windows 2000 Professional Windows Debugging
Duration: 4 days
Audience Prerequisites
This course is intended for system software engineers who develop Windows system-level code and support personnel who support system-level products.
  • Programming experience required with specific knowledge of C and C++ very helpful.
  • Some labs are performed using Microsoft Visual Studio, so some experience with this development tool is preferred.
Description
This course gives developers and support engineers the knowledge to locate and isolate Windows 2000 kernel and user mode bugs.
Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
  • Understand the tools supplied by Microsoft to debug Windows applications
  • Explain the role of symbol and map files in debugging
  • Effectively use Microsoft Visual Studio to trace and debug applications
  • Perform debugging of Dynamically Loaded Library code (DLL's)
  • Use NTSD (NT Symbolic Debugger) to perform command-line debugging
  • Perform stack tracing and debugging
  • Perform remote debugging
  • Use Dr. Watson and WinDbg to analyze application crash dumps (post-mortem)
  • Effectively use Microsoft WinDbg to trace and debug kernel-mode code
  • Analyze Windows 2000 "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) and the resulting dump files using WinDbg
Course Outline
An Overview of the Win32 Debuggers & Environment
  • The Windows 2000 Debuggers
  • The Portable Executable (PE) File Format
  • Symbol Files
  • Map Files
  • Debug & Release Builds

Visual Studio Debugger

  • Source File Debugging
  • Setting Breakpoints
  • The Debug Windows
  • Thread Management
  • Exception Management
  • Remote Debugging

DLL Architecture & Debugging

  • The Windows 2000 DLL Architecture
  • Types of DLL Linkage
  • DLL Base Address
  • Binding
  • Debugging a DLL

Command Line Debugging using NTSD

  • NTSD Overview
  • Symbolic & Source Debugging
  • CDB
  • Remote debugging using CDB

Stack Debugging

  • Structure of the Intel Stack
  • Stack Optimizations
  • Stack Traces
  • Stack Corruption
  • Stack Recovery

Kernel Device Driver Debugging

  • Overview of kernel debuggers
  • Kernel mode debugging environment
  • Host configuration
  • Target configuration
  • Symbol files
  • Using WinDbg on the Host

Crashes & Dump Files

  • Why Windows 2000 crashes
  • Memory Dump Options
  • Analyzing a Crash Dump with WinDbg
  • User mode dump files
  • An Overview of Dr. Watson
  • Building an application for use with Dr. Watson
  • Capturing and analyzing a user mode crash
 
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