[nvmewin] Setting a Windows Debugging Environment

[Freyensee, James P]

I just used a 1394 connection and used Microsoft's MSDN pages to set mine up:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff556866%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh698272%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I use VS 2012 and the latest WDK for VS 2012 because if you are targeting Win8, you need that VS version (per Microsoft).

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).

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.

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.

Good luck :).

From: nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Brenda Powers
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:31 AM
To: nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [nvmewin] Setting a Windows Debugging Environment

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.

I have tried using Windbg and have the same problem of failing to get a connection established.

Can anyone give me the details of their debugging setup which I can duplicate?

Brenda Powers
Cadence
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