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More debugging videos and a Resource List from my TechED and Oredev sessions on debugging asp.net applications
I just returned from Oredev and TechED EMEA , both conferences were very interesting in their own special ways.  TechED was of course bigger with a lot of good sessions on my specific area while Oredev is a bit more small and cozy, and a way to meet...
WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released
For all of you who have been asking me if there is a 64bit version of Debug Diag (used to debug 64 bit processes), I am happy to say that yes, Debug Diag 1.1 64bit is now released. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx...
.NET Hang Case study: The danger of locking on strings
I had an interesting case today where an asp.net app was stuck in a true deadlock.  In other words two threads were both waiting for resources that the other thread owned. The scenario in these cases usually goes something like this: FunctionA (locks...
Debug Diag: mscorwks.dll is responsible for 372.46 MBytes worth of outstanding allocations
I got an email today on an issue that I think is pretty common when you try to memory leak analysis on a dump with debug diag . They had set up a leak rule in debug diag to monitor for leaks and then ran the memory analysis on it to see what was leaking...
Finding memory leaks with ANTS Memory Profiler
I was out looking for some sample scripts for tinyget and ran across this ANTS Memory Profiler review where Scott Seely has tested it out on some of my debugging labs . I haven’t had the time and/or opportunity to test it out myself but since many people...
ASP.NET Case Study: Hang when loading assemblies
The other day I came across an issue where an ASP.NET site stopped responding and didn’t start serving requests again until the W3WP.exe process was restarted. We grabbed some memory dumps with debug diag before restarting the process to see what was...
Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book
Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying...
Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0
With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 getting ready to be shipped sometime in the next year, I wanted to see what were peoples ideas for how to debug applications that were written with them.  Are you happy in production with what you are currently...
How can I make you learn and benefit from my Blog? and how can I learn from you?
Summer is almost over and a new season of heavy work is beginning.  I wanted to take this opportunity to start on a new page and make sure that I’m spending my cycles doing the right things.  I’ve been blogging for almost 3 years now and throughout...
Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications?
I came back from a long vacation today and I’ve finally caught up with enough emails to do something useful with my day. As I scanned through my blog email bucket I noticed that I had a lot of emails relating to my last post on dumping .net exceptions...
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