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June 2008 - Posts

ASP.NET Memory Leak: Byte arrays rooted in System.Security.Policy.Evidence

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:04 PM by Tess
Today I got a question from a reader (Chris) about a memory leak they are seeing in their application When we do a '!dumpheap -min 85000 -type Byte[]' we can see 100s of byte array objects using up ~545MB of memory. A majority of the objects are the same Read More...
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Bag of Chips: Installing XNA Games on your Zune

Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 2:40 PM by Tess
It is not often that I stray too far from debugging and ASP.NET on my blog, but this time I am going to make an exception because I am just really excited about this:) so I'll put this post in the "bag of chips" category... I finally installed Read More...
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100% CPU in vbc.exe when compiling large vb.net web applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 12:52 PM by Tess
We just released a hotfix for an issue where you get 100% CPU in vbc.exe when compiling large applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Apart from the 100% CPU situation you may also notice symptoms like visual studio taking a very long time to return Read More...
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Presenting at TechEd Developers Europe 2008, Barcelona

Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 10:14 AM by Tess
Save the date!  TechEd Developers North America 2008 just finished but there is plenty more to come... I know it's a bit early still, but November 10th through 14th TechEd Developer 2008 is coming to Barcelona, Spain and the session list is already Read More...
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ASP.NET Case Study: Deadlock waiting in GetToSTA

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:44 AM by Tess
This is an issue I come across once in a while and since I am not a COM expert by any means I actually had to check in with our COM guys to see what was going on in this case, and as it turned out (this is embarrassing:)) I had already written about the Read More...
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CLR Inside Out: Large Object Heap Uncovered

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 10:22 AM by Tess
In many of my posts I have discussed performance issues and memory issues caused by excessive use of the Large Object Heap, here are a few examples... ASP.NET Case Study: High CPU in GC - Large objects and high allocation rates ASP.NET Case Study: Bad Read More...
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Setting .NET breakpoints in Windbg for applications that crash on startup

Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:51 PM by Tess
I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know how to set breakpoints in code for applications that crash on startup. The email went like this: I have a .NET app which is crashing upon startup (it even causes DW20.exe to make an appearance). Read More...
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