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Managed Debugging and inspecting Jitted code With WinDbg

WinDbg is a powerful tool to debug applications. Lately, its use has been extended to managed debugging as well through an extension called sos.dll (Son of Strike). Sos.dll is shipped with both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET 1.1 Framework and is a WinDbg

Resolving Very Slow Symbol Loading with VS 2008 during debugging

Recently, I was encountering insanely slow project loading times during debugging in Visual Studio 2008. Interestingly, this only happened while loading the project only in debug mode. Also, during the slow symbol loading time, the status bar at Visual