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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)

POP QUIZ: How to Troubleshoot a Hang

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:14 GMT

For this quiz. Let’s say that you run a web server and your customers complain that the site is running slow. What do you do to troubleshoot it? As a follow-up, if you figure out that one page is the problem, what do you do to look into what...(read more)

POP QUIZ: Why would you get this error from Windbg?

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:28:40 GMT

Problem 1 So here is the scenario. You open a dump from when you were experiencing a problem and try to run an SOS command and you see: 0:024> !dumpheap -stat Cannot get the ThreadStore, do you have symbols for the mscorwks/mscorsvr files? What...(read more)