Experienced developers know that good tools support is critical for successful implementation, debugging, and maintenance of embedded products. SoC designs have introduced a new set of problems that ...

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

Another new capability eases debugging of multithreaded applications, by allowing users to view which managed thread is holding a .NET object lock in the Call Stack Window, Parallel Stacks Window, and ...

I'd suggest not using the VC debugger, and using WinDBG or CDB instead (free downloads from Microsoft). They're both exceptionally UNfriendly, but are very good at tracking down tough problems.