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When used to install various extensions and beta SDKs on your development machine, it often occurs that Visual Studio starts acting erratically, even to the point of stopping working. Sometimes, the workaround can be easily found by browsing through specialized websites, sometimes it can be much harder because you’re lacking information on the precise issue. That’s when trying to debug your IDE can help putting you in the right direction. I encountered such situation today, so I thought it would be interesting to share the few steps I had to go through. The symptoms It all started when trying to create my first Windows 10 project onRead More →

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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 →