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Finding memory leaks with ANTS Memory Profiler
I was out looking for some sample scripts for tinyget and ran across this ANTS Memory Profiler...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 10/07/2009
Busy November, presenting at TechED Europe and Oredev
TechED Europe – Berlin - 9-13th of November This will be the 2nd time I present at TechED....
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/17/2009
Forms authentication fails after installing IIS 7.5
I recently had a customer that just moved from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2 (changing from IIS 7...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/16/2009
How can I make you learn and benefit from my Blog? and how can I learn from you?
Summer is almost over and a new season of heavy work is beginning. I wanted to take this opportunity...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 08/17/2009
Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications?
I came back from a long vacation today and I’ve finally caught up with enough emails to do...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 08/10/2009
Design tips for Developers
I found a set of really nice, short videos by Arturo Toledo on the Silverlight blog that I thought...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 07/07/2009
A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state
Recently I had a case where the customer had an issue with session variables. The claim was that if...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/26/2009
Visual Studio 2010 .net debugging resource
If my post on dump debugging in VS 2010 piqued your interest, here is a list of a number of other...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/18/2009
Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0
Yesterday I found this really nice Channel 9 interview with Maoni Stephens (Dev Owner of the CLR GC)...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/29/2009
Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks
I have put together a quick and dirty debug diag script for troubleshooting .net memory leaks....
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/12/2009
Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues
Bret wrote a post about Managed Stack Explorer, a really nice tool that was developed in 2006 but...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/08/2009
Unable to load DLL ‘dllname.dll’: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. 0x8007045A
I recently got an email with the following question: “Can you give me some very helpful hints...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/29/2009
Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.
A colleague of mine, John Allen, created an awesome tool way back that displays memory usage in a...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/23/2009
.NET Exceptions: Quick WinDbg/SOS tip on how to dump all the .NET exceptions on the heap
Since a .net exception is a .NET object like any other, it gets stored on the GC heap when you (or...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/16/2009
Validation of viewstate MAC failed after installing .NET 3.5 SP1
After installing .NET 3.5 SP1 you may get Validation of viewstate MAC failed exceptions when doing...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/14/2009
Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
I was working on some Silverlight samples and needed an image that could flip over as in the example...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/16/2009
.NET Rocks: Debugging chat
Yesterday I had a nice chat with Richard and Carl at .NET Rocks. We talked about .net, debugging,...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/10/2009
Silverlight Game – Part 4 - Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around
This is part four in a series of 5 posts showing how I built a simple game in Silverlight, you can...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
Silverlight Game – Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage
This is part five in a series of 5 posts showing how I built a simple game in Silverlight, you can...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
Silverlight Game – Part 3 - Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels
This is part three in a series of 5 posts showing how I built a simple game in Silverlight, you can...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout
This is part one in a series of 5 posts showing how I built a simple game in Silverlight, you can...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
Silverlight Game – Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl
This is part two in a series of 5 posts showing how I built a simple game in Silverlight, you can...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game
This series of posts are not really in-line with my normal debugging posts, but I just created a...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 03/04/2009
.NET Memory Leak reader email: Are you really “leaking” .net memory
I get several emails every week through the blog asking for help on various issues. Unfortunately...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 02/27/2009
.NET Memory Leak: To dispose or not to dispose, that’s the 1 GB question
I was looking at a memory dump recently for an issue where the process would grow to over 1 GB and...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 02/03/2009
Troubleshooting .Net SQL Connectivity issues: What data should you gather?
Spike in our data access support team has a really good blog talking about data access related...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 01/23/2009
TechDays Sweden March 17th-18th 2009
If you live in Sweden and haven’t signed up for TechDays 2009 yet, go ahead and check it out....
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 01/13/2009
Video of my TechEd presentation of Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg
My TechEd presentation “Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg” is...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/27/2008
Debugging memory leaks in Compact Framework / Windows CE applications
This is way out of the scope of what I normally troubleshoot, but I have gotten some questions...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/25/2008
Planning a new .net debugging lab set – What do you want to see?
There’s been close to 25 000 downloads of the buggy bits lab set, YAY!!! :) but now I think...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/24/2008
Slides for interactive TechEd Sessions about debugging .net issues in windbg
... and here are the slides for the interactive session Debugging Performance Issues, Memory Issues...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/21/2008
Slides and resources for TechED presentations about debugging .NET issues with Windbg
I still have to figure out a way to host the video from the break-out session but until then, here...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/21/2008
Troubleshooting appdomain restarts and other issues with ETW tracing
You learn something new every day… I was working on an issue with appdomain restarts caused by page...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/06/2008
PDC announcements about Dump debugging for .NET 4.0
Mike Stall just wrote a very interesting post about ICoreDebug announcements at the PDC. More...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 11/03/2008
Performance by Design – PDC 2008
Rico Mariani (Chief Architect of Visual Studio – previously performance architect for .net),...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 10/30/2008
Troubleshooting ASP.NET issues with HTTPERR logs
I am doing some email cleanup and got a request to write a post about how to use the HTTPERR logs.I...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 10/22/2008
Debugging hangs, memory leaks or exceptions in silverlight apps with sos
Back in August I wrote a post about how to debug these types of issues in silverlight applications....
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 10/21/2008
.NET Debugging at TechED EMEA (10-14 November in Barcelona)
I hope you will join me for TechEd in Barcelona on the 10th-14th of November.I will be presenting 2...
Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 10/21/2008