When trying to help customers debug some issues it is periodically necessary to get a memory dump (snapshot) of a process for analysis at another time or place. This is frequently the case when an error is intermittent or a live debug session is not feasible (like in a production environment). I will...

Included in version 2.0 of the .NET framework is a Ping class (System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace) that can be used to monitor the up/down status of a network connection to a server. We recently realized that we had a minor bug in the class that can present itself as a major problem - a memory leak...