SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – DumpXmlDocument

If you have done much debugging with XML data, you know how difficult it can be to look at a System.Xml.XmlDocument. They don’t just show up in the debugger as XML. This is where this command comes into play. It will take a XmlDocument as input and will print out the entire XML for that document.

Note: It does not print out any XmlComments, XmlDeclarations, or other things at the top of the document.

The output from this command looks like:

As you can see, this makes it much easier to look at a System.Xml.XmlDocument in the debugger.

Published 27 June 08 06:00 by Tom

Filed under: ASP.NET, Debugging, IIS, .NET, SOS

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# ecards said on June 28, 2008 4:51 PM:

Tom that is pretty cool, one of those things that seems obvious after the fact.

But you mentioned a future release, when would that be?

I'm already running 2008 SP1 Beta 1

# Tom said on June 29, 2008 11:19 PM:

Ecards,

Take a look at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/06/04/update-coming-for-sos.aspx

Basically, SOS for 2.0 is getting added to the debugger package.

# Howard said on November 26, 2008 8:42 AM:

Hi Tom

I've installed v10.6.003.233 of WinDbg, the SOS.dll that ships with this has the dumpxmldocument command (but no dumpstat as mentioned in another post here) but it's a 1.1 version of SOS. Where can I get a .NET 2.0 version of SOS that contains dumpxmldocument? You can't imagine how useful that command is for me, but I need it for .NET 2.0. Thanks Howard

# Tom said on December 3, 2008 11:11 PM:

Howard,

We are actively working on trying to get that out to anyone that wants it. I'll try to keep you posted.

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