Yun Jin's WebLog

If you use SOS’s !Threads command during debugging a lot, you should be familiar with such output: 0:003> !threads PDB symbol for mscorwks.dll not loaded Loaded Son of Strike data table version 5 from "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1...

With knowledge in my previous blog , we could avoid some mistakes in .NET programming. A C++ Thread is very resource heavy. It is associated with a lot of dynamically allocated memory and some OS handles. So it had better to be cleaned up ASAP after...

I got email asking me to explain !Threads output in details. I think this is a good question and a good topic for another installment to the series. Here is an example I'll use for this post: 0:055> !threads ThreadCount: 202 UnstartedThread...

Some time ago I saw a problem from a partner team in Microsoft that an InvalidOperationException is thrown from WeakReference.IsAlive . WeakReference wraps weak GC handle implemented in CLR's Execution Engine ( GC handle is also exposed by System.Runtime...