Episode

Debugging threads with the Parallel Stacks window

with Robert Green, Ramkumar Ramesh, Mark Downie

Visual Studio Toolbox

The Parallel Stacks window is very helpful for debugging multithreaded applications. Mark and Ram show how to use the Threads view to see stack information for all threads in an application and how to use it to find out why threads are deadlocked.

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 02:15 - Review demo app with thread deadlock
  • 05:30 - See a visual representation of threads in the app
  • 11:10 - Finding the cause of the deadlock
  • 15:50 - Show external code and methods (rather than threads)
  • 17:30 - Save threads view as a graphic
  • 19:10 - Wrap up

Visual Studio