Windows 8 debugger tools

Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. The Windows Debugger WinDbg can be used to debug kernel-mode and user-mode code, analyze crash dumps, and examine the CPU registers while the code executes. WinDbg Preview is a new version of WinDbg with more modern visuals, faster windows, and a full-fledged scripting experience. It is built with the extensible object-orientated debugger data model front and center.

This tool set includes WinDbg and other debuggers. You can get Debugging Tools for Windows as part of a development kit or as a standalone tool set:.

If your computer has Visual Studio and the WDK installed, then you have six available debugging environments. For descriptions of these environments, see Debugging Environments. All of these debugging environments provide user interfaces for the same underlying debugging engine, which is implemented in the Windows Symbolic Debugger Engine Dbgeng. This debugging engine is also called the Windows debugger , and the six debugging environments are collectively called the Windows debuggers.

Visual Studio includes its own debugging environment and debugging engine, which together are called the Visual Studio debugger. For debugging managed code, such as C , using the Visual Studio debugger is often the easiest way to get started. The output is similar to this:. Debugging Using WinDbg Preview. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode.

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