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One of my colleagues in Israel asked me how you would go about downloading the correct symbol for a particular DLL or EXE that a customer had on their system. Normally we can just use Microsoft's public symbol server for this but in this case the system
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This interesting little question came up on one of our internal email lists. Sometimes when debugging you want to know whether a particular process is linked using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag and therefore capable of using usermode addresses above the
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My colleague Nico brought to my attention a new debugger extension project over on Codeplex . Looks like an interesting project. You can read more about it here . Doug
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I spend a lot of my day debugging other peoples' code, be it the code of my customers or code that Microsoft's developers have written. I also spend a little bit of my day writing and debugging my own code. I would say, on balance that I prefer debugging
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Here is a neat new feature added to Windows Error Reporting (WER) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - you can now have WER generate and keep full user mode dumps of crashing applications . HTH Doug
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This question arose out of a support case that my colleague Susanne and I handled recently for one of our customers. The situation was that the first request to an ASPX page was taking in excess of 15 seconds whereas subsequent requests were very fast
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A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX compatability by the C# compiler after the application of
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This is a number that is going to become very familiar to me over the coming months and probably years. It'll join a hall of fame, along with 42, 832, 2032, 288,6018. Why? Is it my ATM pin? My new car registration? No, neither of these. It is in fact
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I took over a case from my colleague Carlo the other day. Carlo has already blogged about it in some detail so I won't go over the detail again. We both spent quite a bit of time solving it so I tried to reflect afterward on why it took us the time it
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After a long gap from the last release of WinDBG, the debugger team have released an update. Note that this is a preview or beta release however in my experience such releases from the debugger team are rock solid and as stable as "proper" releases. Also,
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As I've mentioned before , I use Windows Server 2003 x64 as my desktop OS so I am always particularly interested when I get a support problem from a customer that appears to be specific to the 64-bit environment. A case in point happened recently when
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I had a curious case recently where a customer was unable to get script debugging to work in Visual Studio 2005. By not work, I mean we could set breakpoints but they were just never hit. It was like the debugger wasn't listening. In the end this was
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Those of you that know and use DebugDiag will be pleased to know that a version 1.1 has been released. IE7, Vista, and 64-bit Windows compatibility (currently targets only 32-bit processes, but works on 64-bit platforms) Leak rule improvements (dump on
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I'm often asked "Where can I learn more about doing this kind of stuff?", this "stuff" being debugging with WinDBG, understanding how .NET works, looking at dump files and generally figuring out what's gone wrong with .NET applications. I started assembling
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Resources for load testing web applications Resources for debugging .NET with WinDBG etc
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