{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}} {\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue128;} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1503;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sb100\sa100\cf1\f0\fs20 Hello Dr. Fawcett,\cf0\f1\fs24\par \cf1\f0\fs20 I just went through the syllabus/topics of discussion for the debugging seminars. Amazingly, I just completed a debugging training course taught by John Robbins himself for 4 days (Debugging Windows Applications). I would be taking Debugging .Net Applications shortly (in about 3 \endash 4 months). I really found it easy to do programming and design here. I was using all the stuff I learnt except for Analysis techniques used in CSE681. The only thing that was completely new and out of sync was debugging. It is a must for a developer at Microsoft to master debugging techniques. Though I didn\rquote t go through the books of John Robbins, I went through the course material and assignment given to us. They are pretty good though we don\rquote t use VS.Net for much of our debugging stuff. We use WinDBG occasionally. NTSD and KD are the most commonly used debuggers. Also sysinternals.com has some cool tools that you can use along side while debugging code (I am taking a course \ldblquote Windows Internals\rdblquote taught by these guys). I am pretty sure John would have had a pointer to that web site in his book. Right now I am all synced up but I still face some difficulty when someone sends me a stack trace and gives a remote debugger to me. One thing that I noticed missing in the syllabus is Kernel debugging. \cf0\f1\fs24\par \cf1\f0\fs20 I went through CSE775 syllabus and it looked fine. I see both COM+ and .Net Security which is good. It would be real great if there are projects that force to use MTA model and involve writing out-of-proc components under varying security (normal user, admin, interactive, launching etc.,) models. \cf0\f1\fs24\par \cf1\f0\fs20 For discussion sake, I also took a design patterns training to refresh my memory. I set a goal for myself that I will get trained myself and keep up with technology. I will compile my bio ASAP and will send you shortly.\cf0\f1\fs24\par \cf1\f0\fs20 Thanks,\cf0\f1\fs24\par \cf1\f0\fs20 Srinivasa Neerudu\cf0\f1\fs24\par \pard\f0\fs20\par }