May 24, 2009
Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...
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Tags: IIStroubleshootingDebugging
May 05, 2009
This is just a quick blog to mention a forgotten tool. The managed stack explorer can be run on an IIS 6.0 Server running ASP.NET 2.0 to investigate the managed call stacks. Looking at the call stacks when an ASP.NET application is not responding may...
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Tags: ASP.NETIIS6DebuggingHang
Nov 19, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIISAzure
Oct 29, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIIS.NET
Sep 25, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIIS.NETCrash
Sep 22, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIISSOS
Sep 17, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIIS.NETHigh Memory
Sep 12, 2008
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...
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Tags: DebuggingASP.NETIIS.NETSOS