Hi there. I am currently trying to familiarise myself with IDA, because it just seems so much more powerful than olly. But, I can't find a way to view the list of exported functions from a dll, and I can't see how to set breakpoints on functions that don't appear in the "imported functions" list.

Example: I am trying to debug something, and I want to set a breakpoint on CreateDialog, or whatever. But it does not appear in the list of imported functions.

Thanks in advance.

Disassembly-wise IDA is the best there is, but as a debugger (IMHO), it sucks, my advice is to stick with Olly your a whole lot better off and a much more powerfull debugging tool.

SiGiNT

I see. So a combination is best. No-one has managed to integrate both of them together? I mean, they both feature plugin support.

Just an idea.

P.S. Who was fravia?

Now I am starting to feel old, perhaps ancient. . .

Fravia: If your spirit still lurks this corner of the cosmos, please manifest yourself!

Try Google.

Actually there is no one good tool for everything - disassembly wise I prefer IDA, but still use w32dasm - why? w32dasm tries, sometimes successfully and sometimes not to insert messages from resources in the code where appropriate, like "Invalid Serial Number" where that message is not found in the code itself but derived by pushing the message from the resource section, that and it's faster - Ollydbg for most targets but SmartCheck for small VB targets, (actually Olly can be used for VB, but most people don't), and it goes on forever, you need a whole toolkit.

As for Fravia - he is the God of reversing

SiGiNT

Howdy,

Fravia is not the god of reversing. He is the god of reversing's son

He took what The ORC started and brought it to the next level.

Woodmann

In Nomine Patri et Filie et Spiritui RCE.

Regards,

IDA can seem a bit intimidating, and the documentation is rather terse, but you eventually figure out things by just exploring around the interface. That's how I learned IDA (and probably not all of it, yet...)

...and Fravia has also become the God of Search.

Yes !!!

THE GOD OF SEARCH.

I have had the pleasure of watching the man in action.

You have no idea of the level of his skill's when it comes to searching.

Woodmann