Tom Christian's Blog

What do you need to troubleshoot Azure?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Insides of Azure

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Want to get more details about Windows Azure ? There is a really helpful video done by Channel 9 that talks about this upcoming product and how it works. I think this gives great details about the architecture and also how you will use this and...(read more)

Windows Azure and you

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:00 GMT

So I have started to look at the new Windows Azure that we just announced, you can download the framework from here . You can also read more about it at Azure Services Platform Developer Center . As I started looking at this, the main sample I was...(read more)

IntelliSense for jQuery

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:28:00 GMT

As for reported here , we now have an official IntelliSense documentation file that will allow you to get rich intellisense for jQuery from inside of Visual Studio. When you go to download jQuery, you will see a Documentation link. Or you can download...(read more)

Strange callstacks

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Site Stops Responding for 15-25 seconds

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

There are a number of reasons that a web site could have a delay (hang) that could cause problems. I am going to talk about a common one that we see which is the CRL. What we have seen in the past is the Crypto API’s are trying to update the Certificate...(read more)

XPerf: A CPU Sampler

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight. This can also be used in the same way to troubleshoot ASP.NET or IIS. What can XPerf tell you? Seema answers that question, it can find out: Is my...(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

There are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode) State Server SQL Server InProc means we store the data in the same process (in memory) on the web server, in the worker process. This has some distinct...(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the various forums that we have, the forums are found here . ...(read more)

Event Log message after installing .NET update – part 2

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:25:00 GMT

If you try to install a .NET update, MS07-040 for example, you may see an event log like: Event Type: Error Event Source: LoadPerf Event Category: None Event ID: 3009 · Installing the performance counter strings for .NETFramework failed. The Error code...(read more)

The PDC this year…

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site. http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have...(read more)

Event Log message after installing .NET update

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

If you try to install a .NET update, MS08-052 for example, you may see an event log that looks like: Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Event ID: 1018 · Failed while registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0) in IIS. Error code: 0x80070003 This message...(read more)

ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Imagine you are a developer and your boss comes to you complaining that your piece of code has been deemed to be taking up too much memory and causing problems for the application. You take a look at your code and you see the following, assume that...(read more)

Who uses SOSEX and what for?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)