Samples are always useful and we can never have enough samples.  So in this regard, we now have a new site that is dedicated to code samples, snippets, and other bits of code.  As Soma announced on his blog, MSDN Code Gallery - snippets, samples...

So the next version of Visual Studio is getting ready to release (it is actually already available for download from MSDN), take a look at ScottGu's blog posting or Somaseger's blog posting about its upcoming release. So what about sos.dll? Well, before...

In case you haven't seen, service pack 1 has been released for .NET 2.0.  I have included the links to it below.  Enjoy. 2.0 SP1 x86 2.0 SP1 x64 2.0 SP1 IA64 A lot of issues were fixed in this service pack.  For a list of what as fixed...

Problem We have had a few customers run into this issue where they are using the J# ThreadEnd objects and see problems with the GC running a lot.  If you look at the actual callstack that is calling the GC, it will be the finalizer thread cleaning...

Recently we have seen quite a few issues where the problem turned out to be an orphaned critical section.  When you have a dump with this problem you can run the following commands to see this: 0:000> !locks CritSec +2b1bbac at 02b1bbac WaiterWoken...

So recently we started to make some changes that allow cusotmers to download hotfixes directly. Before this, when a problem was listed in an article, you had to call Microsoft Support and have them send you the fix. That is all changing now. For some...