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Swedish Screen casts of debugging labs and visual studio test

I know that perhaps not that many of you know Swedish, but for those of you who do, you might want...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/30/2008

Making it easier to debug .net dumps in windbg using .cmdtree

John Robbins beat me to the punch and wrote an excellent post about using .cmdtree in windbg to ease...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/18/2008

ASP.NET Memory Issues - High Memory Usage with AjaxPro (fixed in current version)

I was helping a colleague out with an OOM (OutOfMemory) situation he was dealing with. Problem...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/12/2008

ASP.NET Memory - Identifying pages with high Viewstate

From time to time we get issues with high memory and performance issues due to massive viewstate. I...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/09/2008

OutOfMemoryExceptions while remoting very large datasets

When you have to pass an object back and forth between processes or application domains you have to...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 09/02/2008

Debugging Puzzler - WinForms crash - Can you figure out what caused it?

Earlier this week I was doing a presentation and since the company I presented for had mostly...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 08/27/2008

Questions on application domains, application pools and unhandled exceptions

I got an email with some questions around application domains, application pools and unhandled...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 08/19/2008

Vacation

Just wanted to post a quick note to apologize for not responding to any comments over the last 4...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 07/25/2008

ASP.NET Memory Leak: Byte arrays rooted in System.Security.Policy.Evidence

Today I got a question from a reader (Chris) about a memory leak they are seeing in their...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/25/2008

Bag of Chips: Installing XNA Games on your Zune

It is not often that I stray too far from debugging and ASP.NET on my blog, but this time I am going...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/23/2008

Presenting at TechEd Developers Europe 2008, Barcelona

Save the date! TechEd Developers North America 2008 just finished but there is plenty more to...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/13/2008

CLR Inside Out: Large Object Heap Uncovered

In many of my posts I have discussed performance issues and memory issues caused by excessive use of...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/09/2008

Setting .NET breakpoints in Windbg for applications that crash on startup

I recently received a question from a reader who wanted to know how to set breakpoints in code for...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 06/05/2008

My presentation on Troubleshooting ASP.NET applications at Oredev

The guys at Oredev are in the midst of preparing for the next Oredev conference in November. Sadly I...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/26/2008

ASP.NET Performance issue: Large number of application restarts due to virus scanning

Issues caused by frequent application restarts are pretty common. If you are interested in what...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/14/2008

IIS7 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2.0

I just came across this great post from Mike Volodarsky (a program manager in the IIS team) about...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/14/2008

"Failed to start stack walk: 80004005", "Following frames may be wrong" and other errors you may see in windbg

When you debug .net applications you will sometimes get error messages in windbg. Here are a few of...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/13/2008

Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking

Today I came across a really good article for bloggers, Scott Hanselmans post on "Blog Interesting -...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 05/09/2008

Why are some commands missing in sos for 2.0 compared to sos for 1.1?

This question that I got from a reader is something that I get asked pretty frequently... "I met a...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/30/2008

Setting breakpoints in .net code using !bpmd

From time to time I get questions like "our process spawns a lot of threads, how do we know who...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/28/2008

Developer Summit Sessions on Silverlight, MVC, FaceBook, and Work ethics amongst software developers

On Wednesday I presented a session on troubleshooting ASP.NET production issues at Developer Summit...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/11/2008

.NET Performance Issues: What if I suspect that my performance problem is in SQL Server Part II

Last week Graham was guest blogging on my blog about PSSDiag and how to gather data with PSS Diag....

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/10/2008

.NET Performance Issue: What if I suspect that my performance problem is in SQL server?

Very often when investigating ASP.NET or other .NET performance issues we find threads stuck waiting...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/04/2008

Recap of yesterdays ASP.NET Debugging Blog Chat

I have to say that I was happily surprised, not only that so many people showed up and about the...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/03/2008

Live blog chat about asp.net and debugging with windbg and sos (10 am EST/4 pm CET)

Welcome to the first blog chat for ASP.NET Debugging. I hope you enjoy this and please let me know...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/02/2008

Questions about .net Exceptions

One of my readers emailed me the following questionI have a simple questions that my management asks...

Author: Tess Ferrandez Date: 04/01/2008

New version of SilverLatte and Espresso Blend available for download

I am sure that you have all been awaiting this new version of SilverLatte and Espresso Blend as much...