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Do you think about supportability?
So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites.  My thinking is that there isn’t much time spent in planning for supportability.  There are a lot of other concerns that take priority, What is more important – Design or Content Read More...
Posted 24 July 08 06:00 by Tom | 6 Comments   
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Windows Internal Beta Exam 70-660
I wanted to pass along some really exciting news if you haven’t heard about it yet, we are getting ready to release a new certification that targets developers and IT professionals who need to know about the internals of Windows for their job.  You Read More...
Posted 16 July 08 12:04 by Tom | 6 Comments   
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ASP.NET and Performance
I wanted to talk about monitoring performance in ASP.NET for a bit.  I have already posted a few postings that talk around this issue, namely: ASP.NET Debugging - High Memory part 5 – Fragmentation ASP.NET Debugging - ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag Read More...
Blog Chat: What would you like to talk about?
I am thinking of having another chat in the coming weeks and wanted to see if there were any topics that you really wanted to talk about.  We seemed to get a lot of discussion going around SQL Injection so I thought that may be a good topic.  Read More...
Posted 19 June 08 10:19 by Tom | 7 Comments   
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How to Dump when a Function Fails
So here are the steps you can use in the debugger to get it to create a process dump when a given function fails.  Please note that this is only for a native function and not a managed (.NET) function. First, find the ret instruction for the function Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 11:52 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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Update coming for SOS
It is still pretty early in the process, but I wanted to let you know that we are going to be adding SOS for .NET 2.0 to the Debugger package , with all of the new functionality that I have been referencing in my posts here. I am actively trying to get Read More...
Posted 04 June 08 10:33 by Tom | 12 Comments   
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An Open Debugger Extension
We just recently created a project on CodePlex that is an Open Source Debugger Extension project called ODbgExt .  This is an extension is going to be created by the community.  So everyone will have a say in what happens with it.  The Read More...
Posted 30 April 08 11:55 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class
A common problem we see when moving to .NET all revolves around the finalizer.  There are a few reasons that this happens: Developers move from C/C++ to C# and are used to created classes with a constructor and destructor. Developers don’t understand Read More...
Networking problems with Windows Server 2003 SP2 – update available
There have been a number of reports of networking issues after installing SP2 for Windows Server 2003.  We now have a fix that will address these.  The errors you may see include: When you try to connect to the server by using a VPN connection, Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 06:30 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
Microsoft research recently released a new tool to help developers with Ajax applications.  You can check out the site for more information, Ajax View . This is some really cool technology that basically puts a proxy in between the server and the Read More...
Posted 23 April 08 09:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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RECAP: ASP.NET Blog Chat
Thanks to everyone that attended the chat we had today on Tess and my pages.  I think it went really well and we are going to continue these in the future and hopefully get to some more topics. I just wanted to let everyone know that we are going Read More...
Posted 02 April 08 11:36 by Tom | 7 Comments   
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Looking at crashes that watson has stored
When a crash happens in Vista and Windows Server 2008, Windows will automatically write out a dump file for the crash. It stores this file, on the machine so that you can upload it to the Windows Error Reporting (WER) site to see if this is a known issue. Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 10:06 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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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...

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