Microsoft makes an excellent debugger. One advantage gdb has, though, is that you can attach it to almost any process over a terminal. Another (that I've seen

Microsoft makes an excellent debugger. One advantage gdb has, though, is that you can attach it to almost any process over a terminal. Another (that I've seen used to great effect, but not since a long time ago) is that it's very straightforward to build up powerful libraries of debugging scripts—things like dumping or following custom data structures, which can be really useful for core file analysis and what not.