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February 2006 - Posts

ASP.NET Performance Case Study: Web Service calls taking forever

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:36 AM by Tess
This issue has been pretty frequent since .net came out, and I am bringing it up for two reasons. It is something I think every web developer calling web services should be aware of... and It is a good example of how the product changes based on feedback Read More...
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.NET Memory Leak: XmlSerializing your way to a Memory Leak

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:25 PM by Tess
I hate to give away the resolution in the title of the blog since it takes away a lot of the suspense:) but I can't figure out a better way to name the blog posts and still keep them nicely searcheable so here we go... This one has come up a number of Read More...
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.NET Crash: Managed Heap Corruption calling unmanaged code

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:59 PM by Tess
If someone asked me, what is the nastiest types of issues you get? I would say managed heap corruption, closely followed by native heap corruption. Btw, if you are new to debugging .net issues with windbg this case study might not be the best one to start Read More...
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A .NET Crash: How not to write a global exception handler

Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:28 AM by Tess
I’ve written quite a few posts on memory issues because that is the type of problem we get most frequently in support, but I thought I’d break it up a little bit with a post on a crash scenario. This is a problem that I have seen a number of times in Read More...
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.NET in SQL Server 2005 – Making .net code more reliable

Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 2:19 PM by Tess
A while back I got interested in the new .net/CLR features in SQL Server 2005 such as .net stored procedures, functions, triggers etc. First off let me just say that the extent of my knowledge about databases is pretty much limited to “select * from authors” Read More...
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.NET Memory: My object is not rooted, why wasn't it garbage collected?

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:08 PM by Tess
I got a comment on one of the posts asking this question and I started writing a comment-answer but it turned into a long-winded rant so I decided to blog it instead:) So you're looking at a dump and run !gcroot on your object but it doesn't find a root. Read More...
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ASP.NET Memory Leak Case Study: Sessions Sessions Sessions…

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:43 PM by Tess
In ASP.NET 1.1 as you probably know, there are 3 different locations to store session objects. In proc which stores session variables in the cache, State server which stores it in the state service and finally SQL Server . There are of course pros and Read More...
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Contacting Tess...

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:01 AM by Tess
I have been receiving a lot of email lately asking for help on particular issues. Unfortunately I can not give attention to individual issues as I am posting to this blog in my own free time or on the rare occasions that slots of time open during my workday. Read More...
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