Looking to the future with cloud computing, it is going to become increasingly important to have good information about what is happening with your site in order to properly maintain it. Keeping development type of issues aside, what types of things do Read More......( read more )

How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesn’t quite look right.  Chances are the problem is that you don’t have correct symbols. For example, if you see something Read More......( read more )

There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash.  The most common one is an Unhandled Exception getting raised.  Another way that is can happen is by creating a GC Hole. What is a GC Hole So first a little background on what I Read More......( read more )

Another thing I am curious to know is if anyone is using SOSEX and what advantages it gives you for debugging.  I have talked to the author of it and I think it has a lot of useful commands, just wanted to get everyone’s take on it. Let me know any Read More......( read more )

I have talked about a bunch of commands used to troubleshoot a managed memory problem in the past and given some situations of using them like: High memory, CPU, or other performance problems with .NET High Memory continued - Datatables High Memory part Read More......( read more )

The debugger extension that we were working on getting out with the debugger package has hit some roadblocks and it looks like it isn't going to be shipping with the debugger anytime soon. We are looking to see if we can find an alternative method to Read More......( 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 Read More......( read more )

This is just a quick little note to remind everyone that the !help command in sos can be very helpful.  Not only does it list all of the possible commands, but if you run it and pass it the name of a command, it will print out a bunch of really useful Read More......( read more )

I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that may change.  If you copy SOS.dll to another location and then load it out of that directory to troubleshoot dumps, you may start seeing problems.  Read More......( read more )

So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites.  My thinking is that there isn’t much time spent in planning for supportability.  There are a lot of other concerns that take priority, What is more important – Design or Content Read More......( read more )