Your debugging experience - I want to hear from you

So I would like to hear from you guys.  I am getting ready to start working a lot on creating some debugging videos (I have already created one and just have to clean it up a little).  But it got me thinking that I would would to hear how you guys go about troubleshooting the problems that you face.

So I would be really interested in knowing the tools you use, what your steps are, and how you progress through tracking down an issue.  If you want, you can tell me about multiple types of issues, or just pick the one that you see most often.

Please include the commands that you use out of sos.dll, if you troubleshoot using that.  Are there certain commands that you always run?  Or always want to see the output from?

I have my own ideas, but I want to give you a chance to tell me what you do first.  The more details the better.

It would be great also to know how you go about looking for additional information.  Do you immediately go to one site looking for answers?  Start searching?  Or what are your steps?

Please feel free to comment about troubleshooting .NET, ASP.NET, IIS, or any other Microsoft technologies around the web (Silverlight, Ajax, etc.).

One of the things that I am thinking of is creating are commands which would be the command to run to start troubleshooting a given problem.  For instance, if you have high memory, always run this command and it will get you going in the right direction.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 15, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 16, 2008
  Sean, Thanks for the comment.  That is some really great information and that is exactly what I am looking for.  I am trying to figure out the best way to create something that can be used by everyone.  I also want to see what we can do to help without the need for dumps so this is great information.