So this was a multi-part quiz.  The answers to the 4 questions posed are: What is going on here? We are trying to load the mscordacwks file that corresponds with the dump.  If we are unable to load this file, sos won’t work.  This...

So for this quiz, we are going to be looking at attempting to load sos.dll for the .NET Framework 2.0. We get a dump file, and when we try to run a command on the dump file, we get an error like: So reading this, we see that we should run .cordll -ve...

There are many types of scenarios that we have around ASP.NET and Authentication.  You can see a number of the solutions we have at ASP.NET Authentication and a good talk about them at ASP.NET Wiki: Security: Authentication and Authorization . ...

There are multiple ways to capture a dump.  There are some examples discussed in my previous post, HOWTO- Capture a dump on a specific managed exception .  You can just use DebugDiag to capture a dump.  The easiest way in DebugDiag is to...

Here is another command that can really help to figure out what is happening.  If you have spent much time looking at managed dumps, you have probably come across the problem of trying to look at a System.DateTime or System.TimeSpan object. ...

I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips.  My original idea is to create short videos that just some doing some specific things.  So not full debug sessions, but rather specific parts.  So that when you are debugging...

During the course of debugging, often times you will find an object that you would like to know where it came from (who allocated the object).  The first command you will want to run is !gcroot .  But this command will only find the object if...

So there has been a lot of information released around Silverlight and the new version which works with ASP.NET (Silverlight 2.0). There have been some amazing videos created showing off all that Silverlight can do.  For example: And the really cool...

So after using IE8 for a while now, there are a few things that are useful for people to keep in mind.  First, there are a lot of changes in IE8.  I am really excited about some of them, such as WebSlices.  They give you the ability to...

Thanks to everyone that attended the chat we had today on Tess and my pages.  I think it went really well and we are going to continue these in the future and hopefully get to some more topics. I just wanted to let everyone know that we are going...

Welcome to the first blog chat for ASP.NET Debugging.  I hope you enjoy this and please let me know your comments on the experience.  I am planning on posting a recap of the conversation (or question and answers) after we are done to the blog...

So there are a couple different things that can affect performance of your ASP.NET application.  One of them is if you are running with debug builds of your files.  This is where this command comes in.  When run, it will tell you any modules...

So with IIS7, there is a new way to get data out about your web server, using the new appcmd.exe process. To start out with, the best place to start is with: Things you can do by piping appcmd commands There are a lot of useful commands listed there that...