January 2008 - Posts

MSDN Code Gallery
Samples are always useful and we can never have enough samples.  So in this regard, we now have a new site that is dedicated to code samples, snippets, and other bits of code.  As Soma announced on his blog, MSDN Code Gallery - snippets, samples Read More...
Posted 29 January 08 09:56 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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.NET Framework versions and sos.dll
So the next version of Visual Studio is getting ready to release (it is actually already available for download from MSDN), take a look at ScottGu's blog posting or Somaseger's blog posting about its upcoming release. So what about sos.dll? Well, before Read More...
Posted 23 January 08 03:01 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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.NET Framework 2.0 SP1 has released
In case you haven't seen, service pack 1 has been released for .NET 2.0.  I have included the links to it below.  Enjoy. 2.0 SP1 x86 2.0 SP1 x64 2.0 SP1 IA64 A lot of issues were fixed in this service pack.  For a list of what as fixed, Read More...
Posted 22 January 08 10:24 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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J# threads calling GC.Collect
Problem We have had a few customers run into this issue where they are using the J# ThreadEnd objects and see problems with the GC running a lot.  If you look at the actual callstack that is calling the GC, it will be the finalizer thread cleaning Read More...
Posted 21 January 08 02:53 by Tom | 0 Comments   
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Tracking down orphaned critical sections in ASP.NET
Recently we have seen quite a few issues where the problem turned out to be an orphaned critical section.  When you have a dump with this problem you can run the following commands to see this: 0:000> !locks CritSec +2b1bbac at 02b1bbac WaiterWoken Read More...
Posted 18 January 08 12:57 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Hotfixes now available for download directly from the web for Visual Studio and .NET Framework
So recently we started to make some changes that allow cusotmers to download hotfixes directly. Before this, when a problem was listed in an article, you had to call Microsoft Support and have them send you the fix. That is all changing now. For some Read More...
Posted 10 January 08 01:09 by Tom | 0 Comments   
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