Have i talked you about real life stories J … well here is another one. This time is about MOSS 2007 and InfoPath forms and about getting a new column for a promoted field that was already assigned to a Site column (resulting in duplicated Site Columns...

I spend most of my work time troubleshooting or managing the process of troubleshooting technical issues onsite, with the customer teams and with Microsoft’s support people. Doing that so often, I’m found wondering on what knowledge can I take from each...

The end-user just called you and stated that no matter how many times he keeps trying, the result is pretty much the same. Ok, so it seems that the suggestion is not good enough. What can you do if all you have is this error message and a complaining...

Very often, I’m asked to troubleshoot some client-side issue regarding web applications. Because, most of those times, I’m not onsite at the customer experiencing the issue, or because often this issue occurs on some remote site or branch office, it can...

Hi, After debugging for quite some time, and looking almost every day at memory dumps you start to think “I really need a command to this, to do that,…” in order to easy on some of the repetitive work and allow you to more quickly...

Hi folks, here it is, another real life story…   A while ago when I arrived to a customer site, he came to me and told me that he had a problem in his MOSS 2007 Server Farm, that for 3 days no one was able to access one of the intranet main site...

Hello, Let me start by clarifying that this only applies to x86. The reason for this is that on x86 the first field on a CONTEXT (more info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679284 ) structure is a flag with the value 0x1003f. More...

No, this is not “just another” article about implementing Splash Screens in Silverlight :) Sure, I’ll briefly present the procedure, but what I really want to show is how easily we can assess, in our development machines, the splash...

Hello, Sometimes i have to do live debugging in order to understand what’s going on inside a process. Usually when this happens i need to set breakpoints on specific methods. Let’s say that I what to set a specific breakpoint on a method...

Hello, This time I’m going to address something that most times is somewhat straight forward to analyze yet many people I deal with don´t know how to proceed when a blue screen appears. In this blog post I assume the server is already configured...

Hello, It´s been a while since my last post. I´ve decided to start a new topic regarding debugging posts. It´s called quick tips debugging code and here is my first post on the series. Sometimes while debugging an issue I have...

One of the most common issues I deal with are related to blocking. Some of this are pretty straight forward to identify, Others not that easy, especially if you have a process with many threads. When I have to troubleshoot blocking on WaitHandles (e.g...