ASP.NET Debugging
Debugging from an ASP.NET and Azure Engineer. Posts are from customer issues and things I feel may be useful.
Code Gallery and CodePlex, how are they different and what are their benefits?
So lately I have been looking into these two web sites a lot more and it isn’t always easy to figure...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/29/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Printing an IP Address
So while looking through a dump, you will sometimes come across an IP Address. For example,...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/29/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Looking at the finalization queue
So in a previous post, we talked about Understanding when to use a Finalizer in your .NET class so...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/28/2008
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...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/25/2008
Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding Redirection
So we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/24/2008
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...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/24/2008
Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications
Microsoft research recently released a new tool to help developers with Ajax applications. You...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/23/2008
ANSWER: POP QUIZ: Why would you get this error from Windbg?
So it was kind of a trick question posting both of these errors. They both mean the same...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/23/2008
Live Mesh introduced
There have been a lot of rumors around Microsoft coming out with something that is Software +...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/23/2008
Making an Asynchronous Call using the Impersonation Identity
If you try to make an asynchronous call, you will notice that the thread that executes the call...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/22/2008
ASP.NET Tips: How to identify a COM call that is blocking GC, causing a memory leak
Problem Description So this is a customer situation we found were the customer was getting an...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/22/2008
POP QUIZ: Why would you get this error from Windbg?
Problem 1 So here is the scenario. You open a dump from when you were experiencing a problem...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/21/2008
Chat Question: Why do we see an exception on the heap, but it isn’t on a stack?
So there is a common issue that people run across when they start trying to debug managed...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/21/2008
Chat Question: What extension to use in what situation
So we have a bunch of debugger extensions that we need to use depending on the situation. So...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/18/2008
ASP.NET Tab Missing
A common issue we see customers having is after installing ASP.NET 2.0, the ASP.NET Tab is missing...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/17/2008
How to handle form events after adding a master page to an existing page
Here is a question that was asked on my posting trying to invite questions, Got a question- Get an...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/16/2008
Got a question? Get an answer here
So I tend to describe a lot of issues here, but we had some really great conversation in our blog...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/15/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about - procinfo
Here is another debugger command that you may not know about that is in the sos.dll file included...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/12/2008
Recommended Reading
This post is a list of books that I would suggest people to read. I will continue to add to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/12/2008
ASP.NET Performance counters missing
We get this problem from time to time so I thought I would talk about what to do when the...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/11/2008
Chat Question: Memory Limits for 32-bit and 64-bit processes
During our recent blog chat, there were a number of topics that were asked about and I am going to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/10/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Getting SOS to work when commands fail
So the last quiz asked about a common error message you may see when debugging a dump from .NET on a...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/09/2008
ANSWER: POP QUIZ: SOS not loading
So this was a multi-part quiz. The answers to the 4 questions posed are: What is going on...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/09/2008
POP QUIZ: SOS not loading properly
So for this quiz, we are going to be looking at attempting to load sos.dll for the .NET Framework...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/08/2008
Authentication options for multiple scenarios
There are many types of scenarios that we have around ASP.NET and Authentication. You can see...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/07/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about – converttickstodate
Here is another command that can really help to figure out what is happening. If you have...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/05/2008
Debugging videos anyone?
I am considering creating some videos showing some debugging tips. My original idea is to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/04/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about - gcref
During the course of debugging, often times you will find an object that you would like to know...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/03/2008
Silverlight information and some cool videos around it
So there has been a lot of information released around Silverlight and the new version which works...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/03/2008
Tips for IE8
So after using IE8 for a while now, there are a few things that are useful for people to keep in...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/02/2008
RECAP: ASP.NET Blog Chat
Thanks to everyone that attended the chat we had today on Tess and my pages. I think it went...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/02/2008
ASP.NET Blog Chat
Welcome to the first blog chat for ASP.NET Debugging. I hope you enjoy this and please let me...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/02/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about – finddebugmodules
So there are a couple different things that can affect performance of your ASP.NET...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/01/2008
Useful appcmd commands
So with IIS7, there is a new way to get data out about your web server, using the new appcmd.exe...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 04/01/2008
ANSWER: POP QUIZ: What to do next? - part 1
So we didn't get much more on this one, so I'll go ahead and show how we find out what is going on...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/31/2008
Stack sizes in IIS - affects ASP.NET
The default stack size of IIS starting with Windows Server 2003 was changed. Prior to 2003, it...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/31/2008
Jobs at Microsoft
Having the ability to work at this company has been amazing, there are so many opportunities to do...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/29/2008
Blog chat on Wednesday about ASP.NET and Debugging
This coming Wednesday, April 2nd, Tess and I am going to be co-hosting a chat in our blogs. ...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/28/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Finding the layout of functions and structs for pinvoke
So when you start working with .NET a lot, you will find out quickly that there are some things that...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/28/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Debugger command you may not know about - aspxpages
So there are a lot of useful commands in sos that you may not know about. I am going to hit on...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/27/2008
POP QUIZ: What to do next? – part 1
So here is the situation. I will lead you down the debugging path and get us to a certain...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/26/2008
Hangs and how to solve them - part 2 - Queuing
So in a previous post, we began discussing hangs, Hangs and how to solve them - part 1 - Deadlocks....
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/25/2008
ASP.NET and SOS
I would like to hear from you! I want to know what your thoughts are around the SOS.dll and...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/25/2008
Are you a Windows Internal subject matter expert?
If you are, and have an interest in helping Microsoft on a special project that will last 5 to 8...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/24/2008
Looking at crashes that watson has stored
When a crash happens in Vista and Windows Server 2008, Windows will automatically write out a dump...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/24/2008
Recent IIS 7.0 updates
So there have been some new updates recently released for IIS 7.0. These updates add some additional...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 03/19/2008