If you are into reading about ASP.NET, Debugging, or any of the other topics that I write about, here are some others that you may want to check out: ScottGu - ASP.NET Manager.  He has all the updates on the new things coming out for ASP.NET and...

If you weren’t at REMIX08 and want to see what Jose showed in his demo, just watch the video below. This is a really cool demo showing the power of DeepZoom, and the most amazing part… He only spent 30 minutes creating each of the demos!  Not only...

It isn't as big of a deal at the moment, but it is always good to make sure everyone is aware of this and how dangerous it can be.  There is some very good information on it located on MSDN here .  The important part is to remember that anytime...

I am beginning to install Hyper-V on one of my machines and set up a few virtual machines.  I wanted to get some discussion going on if others are using this technology and what kind of issues you are having with ASP.NET. This could be either development...

Have you ever wondered about all the stages that an ASP.NET request goes through?  Ever wonder why it is such a performance hit to have a wildcard mapping to map all extensions on your web server to ASP.NET?  This information corresponds to...

So there are now two different editors that are out from Microsoft.  There is Visual Studio which has been around for a long time and now a new tool called Expression Web .  So which should you use? Well it all comes down to what you are going...

I know that Vista has been out for a while, but just in case people are looking for information on how to use ASP.NET 1.1, Visual Studio 2005, or Visual Studio 2003 on Vista, here are some very helpful links. Using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista for web...

So now that I am done with all the individual posts, I thought I would wrap them all together.  So here are all of the posts that I created on gathering information when you are having a problem. Please keep in mind that these are geared towards...

Just in case anyone hasn't heard yet, we have released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.  This was announced by Soma here . There are many new things coming in this Service Pack that Soma goes into describing...

Here is another situation that you may come across and what to do in order to gather information about it. The following steps will configure DebugDiag to automatically capture a memory dump of the ASPNET_WP.exe process recycling when it exceeds the memoryLimit...

If you have done much debugging with .NET 2.0, you have probably come across these files before.  For example, instead of seeing mscorlib.dll in your process, you will see mscorlib_ni.dll.  So what are these files? .ni images are precompiled...

So we already talked about what to gather when you are experiencing high memory .  But what if you are actually getting a System.OutOfMemoryException?  Here is how you capture a dump at the time you are running out of memory. The following steps...

This was a trick question.  There is actually nothing wrong with this code.  Take a look at this in regards to this type of code: 9.3/9: A member function can be declared (but not defined) using a typedef for a function type.  The resulting...

So I would like to hear from you guys.  I am getting ready to start working a lot on creating some debugging videos (I have already created one and just have to clean it up a little).  But it got me thinking that I would would to hear how you...

So I was looking around CodePlex the other day and I came across some really useful tools up there that I thought I would share.  Not all of these will apply to everyone, but they can be really useful things and I would recommend you to check them...

In the previous post around capturing a dump for a crash, we were talking about using DebugDiag .  But what if we can't use this tool.  There are various reasons for this, maybe we don't want to have it installed on the server, or maybe we are...

Here is another snippet of code for you to look at and tell me what is wrong.  As before, give your comment of what is wrong and I will post the answer and make the comments public tomorrow.  This time it is C++ code and not specific to ASP...

This is a really cool application that shows off the power of Silverlight 2.0.  You can use this application to see the movement of players to or away from an NFL team.  You just click on the team on the left and then after a couple seconds...

There are two ways to gather data in a Deadlock situation.  If you are using Windows 2003 or later (IIS 6.0 or later), then follow the steps in the KB 828222 If you are using an older version of IIS, then follow the steps below: Before the issue...

There were a lot of great sessions at MIX this year and in case you missed them, I wanted to let you know where you can find them at.  For individual sessions, you can go here . But there is a better way to go through some of the really cool information...

If you haven’t heard of this project, now is a great time to check it out.  You can find the project at: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ The Microsoft Research team has created this site which allows you to explore the universe in a very unique...

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio...

One of the common things that we run into is the ability, or lack there of, to reproduce an issue.  It is very difficult to fix an issue and be confident that you have fixed the issue unless you can reproduce it.  It is also much faster to troubleshoot...

When debugging, some of you may have noticed that looking at a managed callstack looks a little different then a native one.  One of the big differences is that you don't see the parameters that are passed to the function.  So what can we do...

We got some really good answers to this quiz.  I am going to give my answer but it isn’t the only possible way to resolve this. The easiest way is to use my previous post found at ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag to track down where a performance...