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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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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 Read More......( read more ) Read More...

This most recent post by John Robbins is what motivated me to add his blog to my blog roll. However, it has been a must read for a while now. This post is actually more “fluffy” than most for him, I just loved the insight into things macros can do that I hadn’t considered like setting breakpoints with custom conditions. Also liked the code he used to validate that the current window in the IDE was in fact a code file before moving forward with the macro. I pulled that method out and added it to my common module of macros. Read More...