DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 1, Calling Functions

I’ve recently had an enlightening experience teaching a C++ Debugging course to a group of developers who are transitioning from a Solaris environment to Windows and Visual Studio. This hasn’t been an easy transition for them, and the course wasn’t easy to teach—specifically, because one of the most discussed topics was feature parity between DBX (the debugger of choice for C++ applications on