How to detect and debug multi-threading problems?

Question

This is a follow up to this question, where I didn\'t get any input on this point. Here is the brief question:

Is it possible to detect and debug problems co

Answer 1

Visual Studio allows you to inspect the call stack of each thread, and you can switch between them. It is by no means enough to track all kinds of threading issues, but it is a start. A lot of improvements for multi-threaded debugging is planned for the upcoming VS2010.

I have used WinDbg + SoS for threading issues in .NET code. You can inspect locks (sync blokcs), thread call stacks etc.