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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I just used a 1394 connection and used Microsoft’s MSDN pages to set mine up:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff556866%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff556866%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh698272%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh698272%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I use VS 2012 and the latest WDK for VS 2012 because if you are targeting Win8, you need that VS version (per Microsoft).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">VS 2012 allows you to set up and debug drivers within the IDE, but it falls well short of whatever “oohs-and-aahs” advertised. For example, all your breakpoints are reset when you reset target device, unlike
windbg which allows you to insert a breakpoint upon boot before rebooting the target machine. I even filed a bug against VS 2012 on this behavior and the VS team closed it, saying they don’t own this (which I can’t understand).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So I don’t know what benefit Microsoft thinks they have with an IDE that can’t seem to remember breakpoints when debugging a driver (among other things I won’t list), thus I continue to use windbg and don’t recommend
learning how to debug a driver with VS 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">One gotcha with installing VS 2012- you need to uninstall all your WDKs off your computer first before installing VS 2012 then the WDK. There’s a bug in VS 2012 that will royally break driver compiling if you
don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good luck </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="color:#1F497D">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brenda Powers<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] Setting a Windows Debugging Environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been trying to get a Windows debugging environment working and have had no luck. I have tried using Visual Studio 11 and going through a USB, 1394 and RS232 connection but have had no success. I can get the remote system provisioned
but cannot get a connection through either a USB, 1394 or RS232.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried using Windbg and have the same problem of failing to get a connection established.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone give me the details of their debugging setup which I can duplicate?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brenda Powers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cadence<o:p></o:p></p>
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