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Bugslayer - Measuring the Impact of View State

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Bloated view state can be a real performance bottleneck for your Web app, but it can be difficult to diagnose. John Robbins creates a handy tool that records and reports the view state size for pages in your ASP.NET applications.

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Bugslayer - Wait Chain Traversal

Tue, 22 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT

Windows Vista has a new API called Wait Chain Traversal (WCT), which allows you to determine when and why a process is deadlocked. Read on.

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Bugslayer - GUI Control to Major Tom

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Minidumps for Specific Exceptions

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:00:00 GMT

This installment of Bugslayer covers the use of ADPlus to create a minidump of your Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 pro¬cesses on specific exceptions.

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Use The Source, Luke - Source Server Helps You Kill Bugs Dead In Visual Studio 2005

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:00:00 GMT

The latest releases of WinDBG and Visual Studio know exactly how to use source server, so its benefits are available to both .NET and native C++ developers. See why this is so important in tracking down bugs.

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Bugslayer - Strengthening Visual Studio Unit Tests

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 brought so many new features to the table that it can seem almost overwhelming.One of the most exciting additions is the new unit testing features found in the Test menu on the main menu bar.

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Bugslayer - SUPERASSERT Goes .NET

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:00:00 GMT

Those of you who have been reading this old Bugslayer column over the last nine years have branded into your frontal lobe a single word: ASSERT! Anytime you can have the code tell you about a problem instead of having to find it by slaving away with a debugger is a huge timesaver.

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Bugslayer - Unhandled Exceptions and Tracing in the .NET Framework 2.0

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:00:00 GMT

By now, you've certainly heard about the big changes coming in Visual Studio® 2005, but when it's time to move your code over it will be the small things that trip you up.In this column, I want to cover two of the many excellent changes that you could easily overlook as you make the move to the new runtime and development tools.

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Bugslayer - Mini Dump Snapshots and the New SOS

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:00:00 GMT

In debugging some large Microsoft® . NET Framework-based ap-plications over the last few months, I've been spending more time looking at mini dumps than at live processes.This is mainly because in those large applications problems surface when the apps are running in production and not on test systems.

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.NET Code Tuning - Make Your Apps Fly with the New Enterprise Performance Tool

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:00:00 GMT

Because the common language runtime (CLR) is a black box, it's pretty hard to divine what's going on when you want to track down performance problems. Microsoft will be delivering a brand new profiler, the Enterprise Performance Tool (EPT), as part of Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer Edition that's ideal for use on a production system because it offers some very lightweight means of collecting performance data. Here John Robbins takes you on a tour.

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Bugslayer - Three Vital FXCop Rules

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:00:00 GMT

In the June 2004 installment of the Bugslayer column, I introduced the amazing FxCop, which analyzes your . NET assemblies for errors and problems based on code that violates the . NET Design Guidelines.

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{ End Bracket } - C# to Visual Basic Translation Tool

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:00:00 GMT

Having talked to thousands of developers who use the Microsoft . NET Framework, I've heard one consistent complaint: 'I really wish all the samples were written in my programming language. ' Nothing is more frustrating than having braved the wilds of Internet searches for a snippet of code that does exactly what you want but is written in a language you don't use.

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Bugslayer - Bad Code? FxCop to the Rescue

Tue, 18 May 2004 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - .NET Internationalization Utilities

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:00:00 GMT

As you saw in last month's column, . NET internationalization support is excellent and allows you to move your application to a world audience quite easily.Before you jump into this month's discussion, you may want to go back and read the March column.

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Bugslayer - Basics of .NET Internationalization

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Google from Visual Studio .NET

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - SOS: It's Not Just an ABBA Song Anymore

Tue, 13 May 2003 10:00:00 GMT

Hidden deep inside the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 you'll find Son of Strike (SOS). If your app is a pure managed code, your development and debugging tasks are easily handled by existing Microsoft tools. If you're on border between managed and native code SOS is your man.

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Bugslayer - Symbols and Crash Dumps

Tue, 14 May 2002 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Tester Utility, Take 3: Adding Mouse Recording and Playback

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Extending the Visual Studio .NET IDE

Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Handling Assertions in ASP.NET Web Apps

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Optimize and Trim Your Code with New Switches in Visual C++ .NET

Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - ILDASM is Your New Best Friend

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Assertions and Tracing in .NET

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Improving Runtime Performance with the Smooth Working Set Tool-Part 2

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Improving Runtime Performance with the Smooth Working Set Tool

Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - A COM Symbol Engine Aids Debugging

Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Tester, Take Two-TESTREC.EXE Updates Previous Version of the Tester Utility

Tue, 16 May 2000 10:00:00 GMT

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Bugslayer - Windows 2000 and LDR Messages, A COM Symbol Engine, Finding Bloated Functions, and More

Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:00:00 GMT

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