Windows – tools for developers

Found 2 very cool tools for application developers on Windows. I have been using these for testing my apps on Windows XP. They’re quite cool, especially the ProcessExplorer one. ProcessExplorer shows almost everything about a running process – open registry entries, threads, file handles, sockets and their states etc. etc.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

The other tool is FileMon that displays the current file sytem activity in real-time. Apart from normal open files and directories, it also lets us track named pipes – so you can debug IPC between applications if they use pipes.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

7 Responses to “Windows – tools for developers”


  1. 1 Ubermensch November 6, 2004 at 2:40 am

    hey manisha,
    first time here…. nice …. be honest n keep them cumin:-

  2. 2 Prabz November 9, 2004 at 5:13 am

    Hey.. YOu are with Novell.. huh..???? This is a hi from a old Novellite.. Howz Novell..?? HI To Preggna.. hope she remembers me..and is the same one I know!! :)
    Good posts.. keep them coming..

  3. 3 SSJ August 20, 2005 at 6:22 pm

    hiya !!

    Work, here too !! Take a break dear workaholica :)

    Ciao!

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  5. 6 Addy July 13, 2006 at 8:11 am

    that was useful, i knew the filemon one though. and nice blog though i cannot figure what silioquies is ..

  6. 7 Addy July 14, 2006 at 7:27 am

    I knew filemon but procexp is nice, btw what is Soliloquies ? my blog at http://myblog-addy.blogspot.com


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