System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException Unrecognized element ‘setting’ and other unrecognized elements
If you have a .NET configuration file with multiple <setting> elements, you may get the following exception:
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Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1
I often get questions about debugging native memory leaks. In other words, cases where you have high memory usage in your application but you can see that .n...
High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary
A couple of weeks ago I helped out on a high CPU issue in an ASP.NET application.
More debugging videos and a Resource List from my TechED and Oredev sessions on debugging asp.net applications
I just returned from Oredev and TechED EMEA, both conferences were very interesting in their own special ways.
Recap of Oredev and some .net debugging videos
This week I attended and spoke at the Oredev conference in Malmö Sweden, and it was great fun as usual. It was a pretty productive few days with a lot of goo...
WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released
For all of you who have been asking me if there is a 64bit version of Debug Diag (used to debug 64 bit processes), I am happy to say that yes, Debug Diag 1.1...
.NET Hang Case study: The danger of locking on strings
I had an interesting case today where an asp.net app got stuck in a true deadlock. In other words two threads were both waiting for resources that the other ...
Debug Diag: mscorwks.dll is responsible for 372.46 MBytes worth of outstanding allocations
I got an email today on an issue that I think is pretty common when you try to memory leak analysis on a dump with debug diag.
ASP.NET Case Study: Hang when loading assemblies
The other day I came across an issue where an ASP.NET site stopped responding and didn’t start serving requests again until the W3WP.exe process was restarte...