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September 2008 - Posts

Swedish Screen casts of debugging labs and visual studio test

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:12 PM by Tess
I know that perhaps not that many of you know Swedish, but for those of you who do, you might want to check out Michael Deurell’s nice screen casts about how to use visual studio test system to troubleshoot the issues in the buggybits labs along with Read More...
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Making it easier to debug .net dumps in windbg using .cmdtree

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:20 AM by Tess
John Robbins beat me to the punch and wrote an excellent post about using .cmdtree in windbg to ease some .net debugging pain in windbg. The windbg .cmdtree command allows you to create a popup window in windbg with commands that execute when you click Read More...
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Q&A Reader emails about .NET memory leaks and random questions

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:36 PM by Tess
Here are of some of the reader emails I got this week and my answers to them... How do I troubleshoot this memory leak Debugging techniques for capturing stacks of OOMS Do you have a list of Debugging 101 links? Debugging managed code in IE Getting to Read More...
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ASP.NET Memory Issues - High Memory Usage with AjaxPro (fixed in current version)

Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 3:21 PM by Tess
I was helping a colleague out with an OOM (OutOfMemory) situation he was dealing with. Problem description: Their applications memory usage would grow over time until they finally ended up with an out of memory exception. First debug: They had gotten Read More...
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Quick Debugging Tip: Disable apppool recyling while getting crash dumps

Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 10:40 AM by Tess
I have probably mentioned this before, but I think it is worth mentioning again because of the frequency of this issue. When debugging a crash, we usually get customers to use a crash rule in debug diag or to use adplus -crash to get memory dumps at the Read More...
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ASP.NET Memory - Identifying pages with high Viewstate

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:56 PM by Tess
From time to time we get issues with high memory and performance issues due to massive viewstate. I have talked about it before here , but I thought I'd show some techniques for finding out which pages have high viewstate. If you look at a memroy dump Read More...
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OutOfMemoryExceptions while remoting very large datasets

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:41 PM by Tess
When you have to pass an object back and forth between processes or application domains you have to serialize it into some type of stream that can be understood by both the client and the server.   The more complex and big the object gets the Read More...
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