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April 2008 - Posts

Special Command—Extracting Class and Struct Fields Using dt

dt is another command used almost all the time whenever you want to get the fields and type for a structure or class. For example, you may have a this pointer and use dt to get its fields and type. It’s a simple command with interesting variations that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:18 AM by Roberto Farah | 1 Comments

Special Command—Use lm* and Get All Details from Modules

Yet another basic and useful command: lm . Hmmmmm… OK so you already know this command. Great! But do you know all of its variations? Usually when we get used to a command we don’t try to explore its variations and sometimes one of these variations may Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:09 PM by Roberto Farah | 3 Comments

[PowerShell Script] Displaying the Top 5 Exceptions and Up to 5 Different Call Stacks For Each Exception

During a lab I had about a month ago, one of my colleagues, Tag, whom I had opportunity to mention in a previous post, asked me if I could create a PowerShell script that displays statistics of exceptions, with call stacks included. For me it sounded Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 11:35 PM by Roberto Farah | 9 Comments

Special Command—Searching the Call Stack for Symbols or Modules Using !findstack

During your debugging session, you may find yourself trying to identify if a specific symbol or module appears in one or more threads. There’s more than one way to do that, and here I covert it in the simplest way: !findstack This command accepts the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:06 AM by Roberto Farah | 0 Comments

My Team is Hiring

All my posts are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights For PFE Job Opportunities at Microsoft, please visit our website at: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/default.aspx - search for keyword “PFE” “PFE: The best place to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:01 AM by Roberto Farah | 2 Comments

[PowerShell Script] PowerDbg v3.1 - Using PowerShell to Control WinDbg

This new version has one more parser for !PrintException and a killer feature that my colleagues and myself have wanted since the beginning: PowerDbg, more specifically Send-PowerDbgCommand , which now has the ability to wait until a command finished Read More...
Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 8:17 AM by Roberto Farah | 5 Comments

Comparing RegEx.Replace, String.Replace and StringBuilder.Replace – Which has better performance?

A few days ago I was with Frank Taglianetti (no links here, he doesn’t have a blog yet), a PFE from my team that I met for the first time at that day while doing a Lab for one of our customers. By Lab I mean stress testing and troubleshooting a customer’s Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:07 AM by Roberto Farah | 19 Comments
 
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