This episode demonstrates a couple ways to accomplish this basic - but very important - task. I probably should have covered this much earlier on, but better late than never (hopefully).

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 8

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 10

In this episode, we'll discuss the different types of CLR threads (.e.g., GC thread, finalizer, etc.) and give a walkthrough of how you can identify each one in a dump file.  Knowing this information can aid in your effort to find root cause - as well as avoid inaccurate reasons - for various application issues.

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 7

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 9

Some exceptions don't cause your application to crash.  Some do.  Either way, developers should work to rid their applications of exceptions for both stability and performance reasons.  Special guest Mario Hewardt joins us as we discuss how to detect the presence of these exceptions, how to gather vital data on them in a relatively non-intrusive fashion, and how to find root cause.  And since this is all done in the production environment, we won't have Visual Studio available.

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 5

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 7

If you've spent any time developing applications, it's likely you've encountered a high cpu hang at some point.  Troubleshooting this problem in the dev environment is one thing, but how do Premier Field Engineers troubleshoot this problem in a customer's production environment when Visual Studio isn't an option?

.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 4
.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 6

"I got my first dump.  Now where do I begin?"

I get this question a lot from customers and fellow Premier Field Engineers who are learning how to debug post-mortem dump files of problematic .NET applications.  In Part 4 of our series, we cover some of the more common commands (not all are from psscor2/psscor4) used by Microsoft Support when debugging hangs, exceptions/crashes, and performance problems.

 
.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 3
.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 5

Ever try to load SOS/psscor into your debugging session and get a "Failed to load data access dll" error?  It's not uncommon, especially when you first start debugging .NET applications.  Join us for a brief introduction to Windbg before we discuss the most common causes for this error, and what are oftentimes simple solutions.

NOTE: At 4:55, it insinuates that psscor4 works with .NET 4.5.  This is not the case.  As of the time of the recording of this video you will need the SOS from the 4.5 install directory to debug a 4.5 app.

 
.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 2
.NET Debugging for the Production Environment, Part 4