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I am very happy to announce that Psscor4 is now available for download.  You can download it from: Psscor4 Managed-Code Debugging Extension for WinDbg This should have the same functionality as Psscor2 does but it works against the .NET 4.0 Framework.  Please let me know if you run into any problems downloading or using this extension.  I would also love to know if you have any feature requests for it. Read More...

I wanted to get a feel for what tools people are using to test the performance of their website.  My questions are: Do you check page-load times?  Do you dig in to see which files are taking the time How do you track down a page that uses a lot of memory How do you track down a high CPU consuming page I don’t want to list any possible tools as I’d like to hear what people are using without me putting any suggestions out. If I don’t see some being mentioned, I’ll be sure to bring it up so we have a holistic view of the tools. Look forward to seeing what people use. Read More...

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the great tools that Mark and the Sysinternals folks have created, but this is one that is a must for monitoring the performance of your machine.  It is called Process Explorer .  With it, you...

I wanted to talk about monitoring performance in ASP.NET for a bit.  I have already posted a few postings that talk around this issue, namely: ASP.NET Debugging - High Memory part 5 – Fragmentation ASP.NET Debugging - ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag...

So now that I am done with all the individual posts, I thought I would wrap them all together.  So here are all of the posts that I created on gathering information when you are having a problem. Please keep in mind that these are geared towards...

On machines running IIS5 and IIS5.1, these are the Inetinfo.exe, DLLHost.exe and/or ASPNET_WP.exe processes. On machines running IIS 6 or 7, this is the w3wp.exe process. The following steps will allow us to get log files of the processes hosting the...