If broken it is, fix it you should

I recently got an email with the following question: “Can you give me some very helpful hints with this one ? I am struggling with the following error in an asp.net application. Exception Message: Internal Error : Unable to load DLL 'RdbNet.dll': A dynamic Read More...

A colleague of mine, John Allen, created an awesome tool way back that displays memory usage in a process very nicely. I use screenshots from it from time to time in presentations or posts but unfortunately that tool is not publicly available. Since lots Read More...

Since a .net exception is a .NET object like any other, it gets stored on the GC heap when you (or some code you call) calls new XXException().  This means that if you have a memory dump of a process you can dump out all the recent exceptions that Read More...

After installing .NET 3.5 SP1 you may get Validation of viewstate MAC failed exceptions when doing post backs on ASP.NET pages Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration Read More...

A few weeks back me and Micke (one of our Architect Evangelists) had a session at TechDays where we talked about “things that looked good on paper” i.e. things that sound pretty ok in the design/development phase but sometimes turn out to be a disaster Read More...