For information on debugging in Visual Studio, see Debugging in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio includes its own debugging environment and debugging engine, which together are called the Visual Studio debugger. This debugging engine is also called the Windows debugger, and the six debugging environments are collectively called the Windows debuggers.

For descriptions of these environments, see Debugging Environments.Īll of these debugging environments provide user interfaces for the same underlying debugging engine, which is implemented in the Windows Symbolic Debugger Engine (Dbgeng.dll). If your computer has Visual Studio and the WDK installed, then you have six available debugging environments. To download the installer or an ISO image, see Windows SDK on Windows Dev Center. You can install the Debugging Tools for Windows alone, without the Windows SDK or WDK, by starting installation of the Windows SDK and then selecting only Debugging Tools for Windows in the list of features to install (and clearing the selection of all other features). To get the WDK, see Download the Windows Driver Kit (WDK).ĭebugging Tools for Windows is included in the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). You can get Debugging Tools for Windows as part of a development kit or as a standalone tool set:ĭebugging Tools for Windows is included in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). For a full list of the tools, see Tools Included in Debugging Tools for Windows.įor directions on how to download and install the just the Windows debugger, see Download and install the WinDbg Windows debugger.

In addition to the debuggers such as WinDbg, Debugging Tools for Windows includes a set of tools that are useful for debugging.

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