ASP.NET Debugging : February 2008

February 2008 - Posts

ASP.NET Tips: Add trace statements: So I am going to start a new topic revolving around some useful tips for ASP.NET developers. The first one is rather simple but very effective. When you are creating your site, it is a good idea to add some tracing to your application for times Read More...
Posted 29 February 08 12:14 by Tom | 2 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, IIS, IIS7, ASP.NET Tip
ASP.NET Support Team Code Samples: A few weeks ago, I mentioned the new MSDN Code Gallery . Well we now have a page setup for the ASP.NET Support Team . Feel free to check it out, we will be updating it with samples to help customers. There are only a few samples currently Read More...
Posted 25 February 08 12:40 by Tom | 1 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Code
HOWTO: Capture a dump on a specific managed exception: So often times, we get an exception of interest, either we see it in the Event Log or we see it in a dump and we want to get a dump at the time of the exception to see what was happening. So how do we go about doing that? Well, the answer Read More...
Posted 25 February 08 12:32 by Tom | 4 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, .NET, Exceptions
ANSWER: POP QUIZ: Why should we pin a managed object?: Thank you to everyone for answering the quiz. Seems like I started out with an easy question as everyone answered correctly. Congrats to Timothy Fries for being the first to answer and also for having such a complete answer. The answer: You pin Read More...
Posted 21 February 08 12:00 by Tom | 0 Comments
Upcoming virtual roundtable about Vista: Have you ever wanted to talk to someone about Vista and what the challenges are around adopting and deploying it? Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over Read More...
Posted 21 February 08 11:52 by Tom | 1 Comments
Filed under Vista
POP QUIZ: Why should we pin a managed object?: Please leave your answer as a comment. I will approve all comments by the following day and give the answer sometime tomorrow or Friday. And for extra credit: Why we should unpin an object as quickly as we can? Read More...
Posted 20 February 08 04:36 by Tom | 10 Comments
Filed under .NET, Trivia of the Day
DreamSpark - VS for college students for free: Are you a student at a college? Do you like to program and wish you could use all the cool Visual Studio software that you hear about? Well if so, today is your lucky day. Microsoft has started giving away all the tools you need to create Read More...
Posted 19 February 08 02:28 by Tom | 1 Comments
Filed under .NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft
High Memory part 5 - Fragmentation: So in our previous High Memory posts, we have talked about situations that are all causes of memory to appear high when looking at the process in Task Manager or Perfmon. But in most situations, you aren't going to be monitoring these tools. So the way Read More...
Posted 18 February 08 11:27 by Tom | 5 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, High Memory
Having problems with Visual Studio or .NET?: If you are having issues with Visual Studio or the .NET Framework, but you don't want to create a case with Microsoft Support, there is another option for you. So first, if you are having a critical issue or need the issue looked at quickly to get to Read More...
Posted 15 February 08 10:45 by Tom | 2 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, Crash, .NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft
The Truth about Microsoft: If you ever wondered what life is really like at Microsoft, here is a 4 minute video all about what things are like here at Microsoft. So feel free to take a closer look at Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed Read More...
Posted 15 February 08 09:49 by Tom | 2 Comments
Filed under Humor, Microsoft
VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Released: As mentioned on Scott's blog , we released a rollup that has many fixes in it. Most of them are performance improvements so I would strongly recommend it to anyone that is using Visual Studio 2008 for Web Development. You can download this rollup Read More...
Posted 14 February 08 02:35 by Tom | 0 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, .NET, Hotfix
High Memory part 4 - Managed Strings: So the last high memory post, High Memory part 3 , focused on native memory that was the problem, let's get back to our normal, managed world. So other then DataTables which we save in the previous post, High Memory continued , what else could cause us Read More...
Posted 13 February 08 03:55 by Tom | 12 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, High Memory
High Memory part 3 - Native Heap: So let's continue our digging into Memory problems and how to track down what is happening. So our last post, High Memory continued , went into how to look into the managed heap and if the problem is a System.Data.DataTable, we can look at it and see Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 03:01 by Tom | 9 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, Debugging, High Memory
Memory issues with .NET 2.0 on x64 machines: So there have been a few issues we have seen with .NET 2.0 when it is running on large 64-bit machines that have a lot of memory. This is commonly seen if the machine in question has at least 4GB of RAM per CPU. So like 32 GB of RAM with 8 Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 09:53 by Tom | 4 Comments
Filed under ASP.NET, .NET, Hotfix

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