Tom Christian's Blog : SOS

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)

Debugger Extension update

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:00:09 GMT

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...(read more)

SOS Tip: Using help

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:32:00 GMT

This is just a quick little note to remind everyone that the !help command in sos can be very helpful. Not only does it list all of the possible commands, but if you run it and pass it the name of a command, it will print out a bunch of really useful...(read more)

SOS Best Practice: Match the SOS version with the process being analyzed

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

SOS Feature Requests for the Future

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without any bounds on what it can do, what would you like to see from a troubleshooting tool for .NET? I am thinking about doing something radically different and...(read more)

Debugging ASP.NET on a Production Server 101

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – HeapStat

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – DumpXmlDocument

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – ported from 1.x

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:59 GMT

These are not a new command in some regards as they were added to the 1.x version of SOS that ships with the debugger package. But if you haven’t been using that before, these are new commands: ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about...(read more)

SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – DumpThreadConfig

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:49:11 GMT

Since we are actively working on getting an updated version of SOS added to the debugger package that will work with .NET 2.0 and later, I thought I would post about some of the new functionality that you can expect to see in the updated version. The...(read more)

Update coming for SOS

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:33:17 GMT

It is still pretty early in the process, but I wanted to let you know that we are going to be adding SOS for .NET 2.0 to the Debugger package , with all of the new functionality that I have been referencing in my posts here. I am actively trying to get...(read more)