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Debugging anything that uses clock cycles

Enabling Gflags or AppVerifier options for a particular service or COM+ package.

I saw the following tip go around on email. Certain debugging options such as PageHeap and...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/14/2011

New word of the day (for me): Malvertising

I’d not heard this before: Malvertising. I wonder how many new words with a longevity of 10 or...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/08/2011

The joy of technical support…

I think this is a true story as I heard it from a friend of a friend….Support technician at...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/04/2011

Catching up on all the recently released web development tools and technologies

You may have noticed that the team headed up by Scott Guthrie that produces things like IIS,...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/03/2011

More web testing tools and resources

A long time ago I wrote a blog post listing some web testing resources, tools and articles. This is...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/02/2011

Geomagnetic Storms–are they all bad?

Having just spent the last couple of hours restoring WiFi on my router by reinstalling the firmware...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/18/2011

Silverlight release history

I’ve only just discovered that there is a comprehensive “release history” document...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/18/2011

Displaying Hebrew text correctly in legacy applications on Windows 7

I recently helped a customer where a legacy application (test application written in Visual Basic 6...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/09/2011

Debug Analyzer.NET–a tool to really rev up your debugging

One of my colleagues Sukesh has just released a beta of a tool he has written called Debug...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 01/28/2011

Anti-malware software on Windows Servers

From time to time in my support job I come across customers having problems, sometimes strange ones,...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/23/2010

How to figure out why your web application is running slow.

I came across this great “portal article” (by which I mean it has links to resources on...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/23/2010

How to trace the activity of an application that calls web services?

One answer:Fiddler is pretty good for sniffing web traffic from any process (not just the...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/18/2010

Microsoft UK Premier support blog updates its list of UK bloggers

The Microsoft UK Premier support blog has updated its list of blogs by UK individuals and teams...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/17/2010

How do I view XPS documents in Windows Server 2008 R2?

A couple of years ago I was having trouble viewing an XPS document on Window Server 2008.Today I hit...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/16/2010

System Update Readiness Tool - useful when you have trouble installing updates on Windows

If you are having trouble installing updates, either a service pack or other update, on Windows...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/04/2010

Parenting glossary for computer geeks

Ok, time for a bit of Friday humour. I recently became a Dad for a second time so my mind is working...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/08/2010

FIX: Inline data-binding expressions in a templated web user control disappear after you generate a local resource for an ASP.NET 2.0 web application

We've now published the KB article for a new hotfix that arose from a customer case I was working on...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/08/2010

Long paths and .NET

I was helping a colleague recently on an issue to do with long file system paths and the challenges...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/06/2010

New Microsoft Premier Support UK blog

Microsoft Premier Support UK blog have launched a new blog here. If you are a Microsoft customer...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/01/2010

MS10-070 - Important ASP.NET security bulletin and update available

On Tuesday we released a very important security bulletin and update for ASP.NET. If you are...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/30/2010

Errors installing ASP.NET 4.0

Here is a little problem you might run into when trying to use aspnet_regiis.exe to register ASP.NET...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/06/2010

New RSS feeds for high impact support issues for Windows

Our content and product quality teams have been working on some new ways of aggregating information...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/06/2010

Script Junkie - a new information "hub" for web developers

Soma has just blogged about a new MSDN developer hub (a.k.a. portal) aimed at web developers trying...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/27/2010

IIS 7.0 and 7.5 configuration reference

If you need to look up the IIS 7.0 and 7.5 configuration reference there is an easy to remember...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/17/2010

Perfecto–a performance tool for ASP.NET applications

Not had a chance to try this out yet but this looks pretty...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/23/2010

Useful books for CLR Debugging and internals

Whenever I deliver a training course on on low level debugging of .NET there are a number of books I...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/20/2010

Putting the latest ASP.NET hotfixes on Vista SP1

Last year I blogged about what were, at the time, some recent ASP.NET hotfixes. Recently a customer...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 07/19/2010

New KB: Description of default permissions and user rights for IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008

This new KB was published recently.Quite a useful reference if you are ever troubleshooting issues...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 04/20/2010

WinForms to WPF Quick reference guide

I don’t do a lot of WinForms and WPF work but I came across this very handy article with some...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/29/2010

Finding the .NET version in a debug session

An interesting little question came up on one of our internal discussion groups today.“How can...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/04/2010

Free Web Application Toolkits

Ever wanted to develop some cool new website feature but not been sure how to start?Well, there are...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 03/01/2010

ASP.NET User-Agent limitation expanded from 256 to 512 characters

Today, I am pleased to bring you a guest posting from one of my colleagues, Daisuke Maki, Escalation...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/16/2010

Tool to turn Hyper-V VM state into a memory dump – vm2dmp tool

Here is a very clever idea made reality. Take a virtual machine that you want to do some kernel...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 02/04/2010

Generating Application Verifier logs for web applications

Application Verifier is a useful tool for capturing application bugs (mostly of the non-.NET...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 01/11/2010

Snowy Britain

Like much of the Northern Hemisphere right now, Britain is having a prolonged cold snap and last...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 01/06/2010

Failed to CoCreate profiler

Sometimes support cases are like buses. You never see one and then two or three the same come along...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 12/30/2009

Update to CLR 2.0 version history post

I finally got around to doing an update to my CLR 2.0 version history post, to which there is a...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 12/29/2009

Here are a few links I’ve saved for a rainy day. You never know, if you get bored of eating...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 12/21/2009

Looking for a clean beach?

I know it’s not the time of year when one generally thinks about going to the beach (at least...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/27/2009

Vineet’s notes on the CLR GC

Came across these interesting notes on the CLR GC.

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 11/27/2009

Microsoft Support Self Help Resources

Came across this very useful blog post by Daniel listing Microsoft Support Self Help Resources....

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 10/08/2009

Britain works!

We do! It does! :-)Microsoft UK has launched an initiative called “Britain Works” to...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/11/2009

.NET Type internals

If you debug .NET a lot you need to know what is going on inside a .NET application.I came across a...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/07/2009

Windows 7 on Channel 9

I previously mentioned about all the interesting stuff on Channel 9 about Windows 7.One that I...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/07/2009

Interesting Silverlight examples

A couple of rather cool examples of Silverlight:https://algorithmatic.comAdvanced Render Techniques...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 09/02/2009

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "MyDatabase" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE' "

I had an interesting case a while back where a customer’s web site which used SQL Express...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/18/2009

Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework

To help .NET developers target Window 7 features we’ve released the Windows® API Code Pack...

Author: Doug Stewart -MSFT Date: 08/14/2009

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