Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues
Bret wrote a post about Managed Stack Explorer, a really nice tool that was developed in 2006 but since then seems to have been forgotten.
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Unable to load DLL ‘dllname.dll’: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. 0x8007045A
I recently got an email with the following question:
Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.
A colleague of mine, John Allen, created an awesome tool way back that displays memory usage in a process very nicely. I use screenshots from it from time to...
.NET Exceptions: Quick WinDbg/SOS tip on how to dump all the .NET exceptions on the heap
Since a .net exception is a .NET object like any other, it gets stored on the GC heap when you (or some code you call) calls new XXException().
Validation of viewstate MAC failed after installing .NET 3.5 SP1
After installing .NET 3.5 SP1 you may get Validation of viewstate MAC failed exceptions when doing post backs on ASP.NET pages
Developers are from Mars, Ops people are from Venus… or It looked good on paper
A few weeks back me and Micke (one of our Architect Evangelists) had a session at TechDays where we talked about “things that looked good on paper” i.e. thin...
Debugging a .NET crash with rules in Debug Diag
During mine and Micke’s presentation at TechDays this week I showed a demo of setting up rules with Debug Diag to identify the cause of a crash in an ASP.NET...
Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
I was working on some Silverlight samples and needed an image that could flip over.
.NET Rocks: Debugging chat
Yesterday I had a nice chat with Richard and Carl at .NET Rocks. We talked about .net, debugging, memory issues and a bunch of other stuff, and in the end I ...
Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game (now in WPF)
This lab series is not really in-line with my normal debugging posts, but I just created a simple Traffic Jam game in Silverlight and thought I’d make it int...