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First step in troubleshooting complex issues: Define and scope your issue properly

Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:21 PM by Tess
Is it a plane, is it a bird, is it a UFO? Before you can delve into any kind of troubleshooting of an issue you need to thoroughly define it.  If you don’t you’ll probably end up spending a lot of time randomly gathering and looking at data that Read More...
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Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications?

Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 2:30 PM by Tess
I came back from a long vacation today and I’ve finally caught up with enough emails to do something useful with my day. As I scanned through my blog email bucket I noticed that I had a lot of emails relating to my last post on dumping .net exceptions Read More...
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Developers are from Mars, Ops people are from Venus… or It looked good on paper

Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 3:54 PM by Tess
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...
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Debugging a .NET crash with rules in Debug Diag

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 2:46 PM by Tess
During mine and Micke’s presentation at TechDays this week I showed a demo of setting up rules with Debug Diag to identify the cause of a crash in an ASP.NET application. Even though debugging might be tricky, setting up rules in Debug Diag is beautifully Read More...
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Video of my TechEd presentation of Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg

Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:25 PM by Tess
My TechEd presentation “Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg” is now up on channel 9, so if you want to watch it, here you go http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDNSweden/Vanliga-fel-som-grs-med-ASPNET-och-hur-du-hittar-dem-med-WinDbg/ Read More...
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Slides for interactive TechEd Sessions about debugging .net issues in windbg

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:37 AM by Tess
... and here are the slides for the interactive session Read More...
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Attachment(s): Debugging Performance Issues, Memory Issues and Crashes in .net Applications-rev.pptx

Slides and resources for TechED presentations about debugging .NET issues with Windbg

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:32 AM by Tess
I still have to figure out a way to host the video from the break-out session but until then, here are the slides for my presentations (attached). And here are a list of some of the tools and resources I used for the presentations Tool/Resource Comment Read More...
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Attachment(s): Common ASP.NET Production Issues-rev.pptx

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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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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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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Debugging Puzzler - WinForms crash - Can you figure out what caused it?

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:48 PM by Tess
Earlier this week I was doing a presentation and since the company I presented for had mostly winforms developers I wanted to convert all my ASP.NET debugging demos to winforms equivalents for the presentation. As I was converting my first demo (a performance Read More...
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Attachment(s): DebuggingPuzzler1.exe

Questions on application domains, application pools and unhandled exceptions

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:43 AM by Tess
I got an email with some questions around application domains, application pools and unhandled exceptions from a developer that was frequently seeing his website crash, and also had some related issues with session loss in his application. I have written Read More...
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The 21 most popular blog posts

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:45 PM by Tess
I started this blog 2.5 years ago today, mostly because I felt that the same types of issues came up over and over and over in our support cases. I figured that if I started writing about them, a lot of people would be able to resolve them on their own, Read More...
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DebugDiag 1.1 or Windbg, which one should I use? and how do I gather memory dumps

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:40 PM by Tess
If you have read any of my posts you have probably noticed that I am very partial to windbg and the debugging tools for windows. I often get friendly nudges from the developers of debugdiag when I suggest using adplus and windbg on internal discussion Read More...
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ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:54 AM by Tess
I have written a few posts about stackoverflow exceptions, here, here , here and here . The one I am going to talk about today is one of those unfortunate cases where you are trying to do the right thing and still shoot yourself in the foot. Problem description: Read More...
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