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[vvanders]

I get that he's being clever at the beginning by poking fun at Windows but many of the shortcuts he talks about are available in Visual Studio and it has a much saner set of defaults and initial information. Ask anyone who did XBox and PS3 development which environment they preferred :).

The reverse debugging stuff is pretty cool though.

[bitmapbrother → vvanders]

>Ask anyone who did XBox and PS3 development which environment they preferred :)

I'm pretty sure if you asked anyone that did PS3/PS4 development they'll probably say ProDG.

[vvanders → bitmapbrother]

I'll give you that PS3 had a better CPU profiler but ProDG was a mess compared to Visual Studio. Crashes, disconnects, problems with source maps. If I remember correctly it couldn't do data or conditional breakpoints.

Compared to VS and PIX it was night and day, although you probably already knew that from my comment.

[bitmapbrother → vvanders]

ProDG has had support for conditional breakpoints for some time.

[xigency → vvanders]

Really, they were both bad for PS3 debugging.

[vvanders → xigency]

Oh man, using VS for PS3? Yeah, I bet. I was mostly talking about how it worked on X360 which is a bit better supported platform.

[pag → vvanders]

Windows can do reverse debugging (time traveling debugging) using Nirvana.

[wolfgke → pag]

Unluckily time traveling debugging/Nirvana is not available to end users.