Programmer's Debugging Resource

Other Programmers' Debugging Experiences

Welcome to... well, to this page. I put it here so that programmers can share their debugging experiences: bugs they've had, and what they've done about them. I thought this might be helpfuls especially to beginning programmers, who might not know what causes an Access Violation, or Runtime Error 13 (in Visual Basic). I hope that eventually it can also be of help to more experienced programmers, as the size of the collection grows.

To begin I thought I would put the bugs into categories. They will begin with MFC, Win32 (which will contain general programming errors and problems for c/c++ programmers), VB (for Visual Basic). I would like to have your input on bugs that you have experienced, whether they caused an error message or just odd behaviour. So, here goes.

I would like to thank Pete Sklenar (take a look at his neat web page at http://www.jado.org/users/caine), Ed Hill, and Steve Rowell and Jaap van Ees(of Steve and Jaap's [excellent] VeeBee Page.) for all of their many contributions to this page. Without them, there would be hardly anything at all here. Thanks.

General

MFC bugs Also check out the MFC FAQ at http://www.stingsoft.com/mfc_faq.

Win32 bugs

DirectX bugs and errors. Also look at the DirectX FAQ at http://www.directxfaq.com

COM/DCOM bugs and errors

C/C++ bugs. See also Neil's C++ Stuff

Visual Basic errors and bugs. (For a great place to learn VB, look at Steve and Jaap's VeeBee page.)

I hope that you enjoy this page. Let me just mention that the purpose of this page is not to point out problems in the C/C++ or VB languages themselves (I've never come accross one), but to show which mistakes on the part of the programmer cause which symptoms. If you have had a bug that you don't see here, or have any feedback on the page, please send it to me at semck@juno.com. Thank you for taking this time to help out other programmers.

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