Getting full user mode dumps automatically when your process crashes
I recently got a question about if it is possible to generate full user mode dumps automatically every time the process crashes (without having debug diag or...
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.NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and leaked dynamic assemblies
I have written before about high memory usage caused by improper usage of XmlSerializer objects both in a case study and in a debugging lab. The problem ther...
New Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 debugging content
It’s been a pretty busy few weeks at work coupled with some vacation so I’ve been lagging a bit with the blogging, so sorry for bombarding the blog with new ...
Debugging a classic ReaderWriterLock deadlock with SOSex.dll
I was helping out on an issue the other day where the process would stall if they added enough users in their load tests. BTW, serious kudos to them for maki...
IIS and PAE
I recently got a question by one of my customers about PAE and IIS that I thought I’d share the answer to.
New debugger extension for .NET (PSSCOR2)
Tom just blogged about a new debugger extension called PSSCor2, which is a superset to the SOS.dll extension that ships with the .net framework.
Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging)
Just a quick post to share a link to last years videos for the Oredev developer conference
Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot)
Visual Studio.NET 2010 has a new feature that allows you to create nice directed graphs with a markup language called DGML (Directed Graph Markup Language).
New commands in SOS for .NET 4.0 Part 1
My friend and fellow debugger Brian at http://Kodehoved.dk recently wrote a couple of posts on news with sos for .NET framework 4.0 (in Danish)