Debugging Tools for Windows: New for Windows 8
Beginning with Windows 8, you can develop, build, and debug both kernel-mode and user-mode components all from Microsoft Visual Studio. There is added support for debugging over a network connection or a USB 3.0 connection and improved support for debugging optimized code and inline functions. For more information, see these topics:
- Setting Up a Network Connection Manually
- Setting Up a USB 3.0 Connection Manually
- Debugging Optimized Code and Inline Functions
Two new sets of debugger extension commands are included:
In addition to Visual Studio, you can sse the Windows debugger to debug Windows apps. The Debugging Tools for Windows package includes, PLMDebug.exe, that enables you to take manual control of suspending, resuming, debugging, and terminating Windows app.
Sos.dll is a component that is used for debugging managed code. The Windows 8 Debugging Tools for Windows package does not include sos.dll. For information about how to get sos.dll, see Getting the SOS Debugging Extension (sos.dll) in Debugging Managed Code.
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