.NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio
Normally I write about issues that only manifest themselves in production environment, issues that you can’t really reproduce in a controlled dev environment...
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I’m presenting at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden Nov 13th-15th
Nov 13th-15th I will be presenting at Oredev in Malmö, Sweden. Oredev is a tech conference and this year it looks really promising considering all the big na...
Debugging Script: Dumping out ASP.NET Session Contents
In my last post I wrote a script to dump out all the ASP.NET requests on the heap. Since one of the most common memory issues I encounter is too much cache o...
Debugging Script: Dumping out current and recent ASP.NET Requests
When you debug asp.net applications it is often useful to find out which requests are currently executing, how long they have been executing, what the query ...
ASP.NET Hang scenario: Kernel Debugging for Dummies
Having debugging as a profession, you might have thought that I would have done a lot of kernel debugging, but since I deal mostly with ASP.NET and .NET deve...
ASP.NET Memory Investigation
This is a bit of a continuation of ASP.NET Memory Issue: High memory usage in a 64bit w3wp.exe process so if you haven’t checked it out you might want to jus...
ASP.NET Hang Case Study: Application hangs on startup
Recently we have been getting quite a few similar hangs in ASP.NET. From the first look they really aren’t all that similar but when we get down to the nitty...
ASP.NET Memory Issue: High memory usage in a 64bit w3wp.exe process
By default when you run IIS on a 64-bit machine you will still be running a 32-bit w3wp.exe, so apart from a few differences, like being able to use 4 GB vir...
A Case of Invalid ViewState
Last week I was helping a colleague of mine with a ViewState case that turned out to be pretty interesting…
Bag of Chips: What should I do with my butler?
This year the Swedish Microsoft Office won the “Best place to work” award from the Great Place to Work institute for the second year in a row.