Riham Selim's Blog
Enabling alerts for Custom Fields in Work Item Alerts
UPDATE: The information in this blog post is deprecated as a new team owns this feature now - The...
Date: 09/07/2016
Troubleshooting issues with Visual Studio Team Services and TFS Notifications / Alerts
TFS and Visual Studio Team Services provide a way to Set alerts and get notified when changes occur....
Date: 08/23/2016
Debugging error System.InvalidOperationException Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool.
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Date: 06/24/2014
.Net contention scenario using PerfView
This is a contention case study from one of our ATs - I have been learning a lot about PerfView from...
Date: 02/24/2014
Introduction to PerfView
Perf view is our new favorite debugging tool, I very highly recommend watching the video series...
Date: 02/24/2014
Which performance counters to monitor on an azure role?
One of the first questions we asked when visual studio online (which was still tfspreview.com back...
Date: 12/09/2013
Dumping the contents of a dictionary object using Windbg and SOS.dll
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Date: 08/16/2013
Resolving CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database [db] when running Create Database [BKUP] as copy of [DB] in SQL Azure
The easiest way to back up databases in SQL Azure is to run Create Database [BKUP] as copy of [DB]...
Date: 06/13/2013
How to convert pretty much any 2D image to a 3D object in OpenSCAD format
I have recently become quite obsessed with 3D design and printing, thanks to OpenSCAD that made...
Date: 06/08/2013
My SOS cheat sheet
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Date: 02/11/2013
Windbg - Breaking on specific CLR exception
I get this question quite frequently, "I know how to break on all CLR exceptions, but how do I break...
Date: 11/15/2012
Windbg QuickStart guide (Part 4 - Debugging unexpected program behavior)
First Chance Exceptions Let’s assume I have written some really ugly code like what you see...
Date: 03/14/2012
Breaking on Module Load
Let’s say we want to break the debugger when a specific dll is loaded, for example I want to...
Date: 03/14/2012
Windbg QuickStart guide (Part 3 - Crashes)
The approach you will take for debugging crashes is very similar between looking at the live process...
Date: 03/07/2012
Error loading sos.dll
Many times you get this error when you do .load sos 0:080> .load sos The call to LoadLibrary(sos)...
Date: 03/03/2012
Windbg QuickStart guide (Part 1)
The purpose of this post is basically to give people a quick start guide to windbg, over the next...
Date: 02/25/2012
Remotely enabling windows azure diagnostics
I frequently need to Enable and configure collecting performance counters remotely in my windows...
Date: 01/11/2011
Retrieving more than 1000 rows from windows azure storage
I recently hit an issue with my code when trying to retrieve data from Windows Azure Diagnostics...
Date: 01/06/2011
Error TF30059: Fatal error while initializing web service from server after installing SP1
If you are getting this error from the server right after installing SP1, you can open the event log...
Date: 08/27/2008
A few VS IDE Tips to make your life easier
This is a number of my favorite VS tips, let me know what you think Tip #1: Select Code Using Column...
Date: 02/01/2008