WinDbg

One of the first things you need to know in order to debug managed applications with a native debugger such as cdb, windbg, etc., is how to dump a managed object. This is a task you'll repeat often if you spend any time at all debugging managed code. This episode demonstrates a couple ways to…

You may wish to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the debug output is easily readable. 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…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 6 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…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 5   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…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 4 "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…

Download PPTX slide here: Part 3 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…

Tess Ferrandez-Norlander som jobbar på Microsoft i Sverige som Escalation Engineer går i den här presentationen (på engelska) igenom vanliga produktionsfel i och med ASP.NET lösningar och hur dessa kan identifieras med hjälp av WinDbg.