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Hang caused by GC - XML Deadlock

13 minute read

In December I blogged about a little tool that I wrote to analyze hangs in dumps, and i showed the following output, but didn’t really get into the details o...

.NET Debugging Demos Lab 2: Crash

3 minute read

It was nice to see that so many people downloaded the demo site already and checked out the lab instructions for the first lab.

.NET Debugging Demos Lab 1: Hang

3 minute read

This is the first in a series of about 10 labs on .NET debugging. The lab will use a site called BuggyBits, and as the name suggests the bits are extremely b...

Learning .NET debugging

3 minute read

I often get questions like How do I learn .net debugging? What books should I read? Where can I find more information?

Using WinDbg - Advanced commands

5 minute read

Update 2021: This is a re-post of a post from Johan Straarup - I am posting it here as his blog has been decommissioned

ASP.NET hang/slowness on startup

5 minute read

After making some changes to their domains one of my customers noticed that their ASP.NET 2.0 applications didn’t respond anymore. HTML pages and images were...