Debugging and fixing a bug in Windows Phone sync tool
2012-12-20
Since a few days, I had this annoying bug in the application used to sync my Windows Phone with my desktop computer: every time I tried to synchronize podcasts, the application just crashed. After a while, I decided it would be a nice debugging exercise to dig into the issue myself. First step: reproducing the issue. It was easy enough, the app automatically crashed when clicking the “Sync button”. And sure enough, this time again, it did crash: I suspected that the application was written in .NET (most Windows Phone related apps are), so I clicked on Debug and selected Visual Studio 2012. VS directlyRead More →