debugging MSVC DLLs

[Gordon McMillan]

Tom Adelman asks an MSVC question:

> I'm wondering if someone can help me with this (or should I direct
> this question to a Microsoft group?):
> 
> What I'm doing now:
>     I write classes in MSVC++, compile them as a DLL, and SWIG them.
>      I
> then run python.exe from within the Microsoft Developer Studio, and
> then within Python load this DLL.  This way, I can use the MS
> debugger to look at what's going on within my classes while I
> manipulate them in Python.
>     The problem with this is that I can only debug the DLL whose
>     project
> I used to start Python; I don't know how to, for example, write a
> new DLL and switch to debugging the new one.

Project Setup -> Debug -> Additional DLLs.

When you step into one, you _may_ have to browse for the source (if 
the DLL was copied from where it was built) when MSVC pops up the 
browse dialog.
 

- Gordon