.NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

Peter Ritchie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:42:28 GMT

Maybe I misundestood the context when you said "Visual Studio on the other hand doesn't allow you to do post-mortem debugging". The following are a sample couple of links that describe post-mortem (crash dump) debugging with Visual Studio:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5zhxt22.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.asp

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

mcgurk — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:31:34 GMT

Reading your posts is like passing by a horrible car wreck. You know you don't want anything to do with what's going on in the crash scene, but goddamn if you don't have to take a peek. Also, you never want to be in the middle of one of them... but you might.

Link Listing - October 19, 2007

Christopher Steen — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:39:48 GMT

NoVa Code Camp 2007.02 [Via: Jeff Schoolcraft ] EarthClassMail.com - Moving from LAMP to .NET 3.5 [Via:...

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

Tess — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:10:42 GMT

Thanks mcgurk,

That would have to be the weirdest compliment I've ever gotten:)

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

Tess — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:26:45 GMT

Hi Peter,

No you didnt missunderstand, I just phrased it wrong...

You can do limited dump analysis in visual studio, and to be honest it works pretty good, but given how hard it is to get to the native parts and run commands like ~* etc. it's almost a can't.

I'll edit the post to reflect this... thanks for the comment...

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

jigarme@live.com — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:16:50 GMT

SOSAssist saved my life.

Thanks for sharing it!

re: .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio

nativecpp — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:34:10 GMT

Just one question:

Why can we 'load' some internal windbg from VS so that we can execute some useful windbg commands ?

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

If broken it is, fix it you should — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:37:29 GMT

I still have to figure out a way to host the video from the break-out session but until then, here are