ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about – finddebugmodules

ASP.NET Debugging : ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about ??? finddebugmodules

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:08:23 GMT

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re: ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about – finddebugmodules

Greg Young — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:13:32 GMT

I disagree ... greatly ...

You still want to BUILD with pdbs in case you need to use them later (memory dumps etc) you just don't want to DEPLOY pdbs with your application.

re: ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about – finddebugmodules

Tom — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:55:05 GMT

Greg,

You bring up a good point. Which is what do you use pdb's for? With managed code, the only reason to have them is if you plan on debugging the application live with Visual Studio. If you are going to look at dumps and use Windbg and other debuggers like that, they don't use pdb's at all. So basically, if you build them, you are putting in the hooks into the dll which are not needed. And with a managed assembly, that actually takes up more memory and causes the files to be bloated. Not just the dll on your drive, but the compiled assembly in memory.

SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – ported from 1.x

ASP.NET Debugging — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:46:09 GMT

These are not a new command in some regards as they were added to the 1.x version of SOS that ships with