There comes a time in every young software developer’s life when he casts his eyes over the sweeping vistas of software development, over the swirling streams of XML schemas, the limpid pools of database connection strings and the great herds of thread safe applications and he notices a small glinting software tool. He reaches down takes the tool noticing the way the light shines off its surface and he thinks to himself “why the bloody hell didn’t I know about this before?”
I had just such a moment with Regmon – a tool which monitors registry access. Embarrassingly I’d never heard of it but massively useful in finding out why my app wasn’t picking up it’s config. In my (vague) defensive – I primarly a web application developer and it more usual (certainly with ASP.Net) for the config to be stored in XML file.
Regmon is part of a library of windows type tools at SysInternal . The cryptic names look very enticing. Filemon also look good for pen chewing “why doesn’t this installation work” type tasks. And I can’t wait to joust with my colleagues tomorrow using PsKill. No idea what it does but I bet it can be lethal in the wrong hands.
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