After my last two book reviews were rather negative, I'm happy to say that this review is going to be positive again. Mario Herwardt's and Daniel Pravat's book Advanced Windows Debugging (
Official Website /
Amazon) keeps what the title promises. It's a book for people that need to find bugs in Windows programs that are for whatever reason (too) difficult to find with the "normal" developer tools like the integrated Visual C++ debugger. That's not what the authors say in the introduction of course. They say it's a book for everyone that does Windows development. And that's probably true because the book is a real eye-opener for what's possible with the debugging tools provided by Microsoft. Nevertheless I guess that most developers will probably rarely if ever leave the cushy environment of their IDE's debugger. But just in case you do, this book prepares you well.
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