Aug 25, 2008
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. ...
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Jul 24, 2008
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...
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Jul 23, 2008
The first time you run !DumpAllExceptions you will see it print out one full exception for each type of exception that is in the dump. This will include the message and the callstack of the exception. For example: Any time after that, if you run the same...
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Jul 16, 2008
I wanted to pass along some really exciting news if you haven’t heard about it yet, we are getting ready to release a new certification that targets developers and IT professionals who need to know about the internals of Windows for their job. You...
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Filed under: Debugging, IIS, .NET, Microsoft, Exam
Jul 15, 2008
So I thought I would put all the information together in one place that I have been creating over the past few months. I’ll try to go through all the steps and the different things that you will need to use in order to track down a problem. Realizing...
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Jul 02, 2008
I cannot stress this enough. It is very important that you use the same architecture for the debugger as the process that you are trying to troubleshoot. Wrong version when capturing a dump If you use a 64-bit debugger to capture a dump of a32-bit...
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Jun 30, 2008
There are a lot of times where all you want to see are the sizes of the various heaps and generations. For the heaps, you can use !eeheap -gc to see the sizes, but the output can be a little difficult to read as it prints out so much other stuff...
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Jun 27, 2008
If you have done much debugging with XML data, you know how difficult it can be to look at a System.Xml.XmlDocument. They don’t just show up in the debugger as XML. This is where this command comes into play. It will take a XmlDocument...
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