ASP.NET Debugging
Debugging from an ASP.NET and Azure Engineer. Posts are from customer issues and things I feel may be useful.
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Did you know that if you have an MSDN account, you can use Azure for free? This is a great...
Date: 08/14/2013
Windows Azure remote access stops working
Problem There is an issue where remote access (RDP) can stop working all of a sudden to all...
Date: 05/07/2012
Windows Azure worker role crashing
Problem We have seen an issue where a worker role running inside Windows Azure will crash,...
Date: 05/07/2012
Unhandled exception has occurred while running in Azure
Windows Azure, just like any other IIS website can crash if an unhandled exception occurs. One...
Date: 03/22/2012
Azure deployment stuck Preparing node
Problem We recently had a case where a role was stuck in this state. So on the portal, the...
Date: 02/27/2012
Using the Azure Management APIs from Linux
If you want to use the Azure Management APIs from Linux, there are a few things you need to do so...
Date: 02/08/2012
Azure Storage Analytics
Now that we have released the Windows Azure Storage Analytics, there are some useful tools to look...
Date: 11/08/2011
Now Available: Psscor4 – Debugger Extension for .NET 4.0
I am very happy to announce that Psscor4 is now available for download. You can download it...
Date: 04/28/2011
Help with Windows Azure role stuck in Initializing/Busy/Stopped state
I have seen a number of issues where the Windows Azure role is stuck when you deploy it and you...
Date: 02/25/2011
Installing and using an HttpModule in Windows Azure
Windows Azure has a lot of great things about it, but one of the difficulties is that you can’t...
Date: 02/18/2011
WCF RIA 4.0 requires an Entity Model that includes Foreign Key Information
If you try to build a WCF RIA Application and the Entity Model (EM) doesn’t include foreign key...
Date: 07/26/2010
New Psscor2 commands – Dealing with Dates and Times
If you have ever tried to look at a System.DateTime or System.TimeSpan object in a debugger, you...
Date: 04/22/2010
New Psscor2 commands – ClrStack showing source and line numbers
Continuing on from my previous post about DumpAllExceptions, here is another new update that comes...
Date: 04/12/2010
New Psscor2 commands – DumpAllExceptions
There have been a few places where you can see this command run, but I wanted to talk about it here...
Date: 03/30/2010
New debugger extension for .NET, Psscor2, released
UPDATE The download is now 32-bit ! I wanted to be the first to inform everyone that there is a...
Date: 03/29/2010
Profilers and ASP.NET
There are a lot of different ways to troubleshoot ASP.NET issues. I have gone over most of the...
Date: 02/26/2010
Intermittently the Server sends back 0 byte WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd files
Recently had this problem with a customer. The full details and the solution follow. Problem...
Date: 02/16/2010
Azure: There is not enough space on the disk
Problem There may be some times where you will see this message when developing an application for...
Date: 12/04/2009
Updates to Windows Azure from PDC
Wow there have been a lot of updates to the Windows Azure Platform that were announced at the...
Date: 11/30/2009
Contest: What have you done with .NET?
Do you develop applications using .NET? If so, head on over to this new contest at...
Date: 11/05/2009
Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database
I was troubleshooting a problem with WCF where the updates to a remote database were failing. ...
Date: 09/17/2009
Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0
With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 getting ready to be shipped sometime in the next year, I wanted...
Date: 09/02/2009
Discounts on Microsoft Certification Exams
In case anyone is interested in taking some Microsoft Exams, we have some discounts on them. ...
Date: 09/01/2009
WCF, Silverlight, and SharePoint… Oh my!
I was recently working on a project and needed to have Silverlight make a WCF call. That is...
Date: 08/31/2009
Developing for the Clouds
I wanted to start a conversation with everyone on the thoughts around Cloud Computing. I have...
Date: 06/18/2009
Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 2
Just a quick update on this. I had to make a few changes to my site and I now have it working!...
Date: 06/15/2009
Adventures with Silverlight 3.0 and SharePoint – Part 1
I have been working on getting Silverlight 3.0 to work with SharePoint 2007 and I wanted to share...
Date: 06/02/2009
CannonPI teaser video
There is a new video up on youtube that is the beginning of many more videos. You should check...
Date: 05/07/2009
Silverlight RIA calling Stored Procedures that don’t return tables
There are times where you want to use a stored procedure that doesn’t return just normal rows out of...
Date: 05/07/2009
How are production ASP.NET site problems applied in the future?
There are a lot of different things you can use to monitor a production ASP.NET web site for...
Date: 04/27/2009
Creating interesting Silverlight chart datapoints
I was reading this great post by Jeff Wilcox and quickly found out that some of the needed code to...
Date: 04/24/2009
Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure
I was just reading through Scott Hanselman’s post about ELMAH and this sounds like a great...
Date: 04/24/2009
Any ASP.NET Debugging requests?
With us starting to look forward to .NET 4.0, I started to think about the debugging story for...
Date: 04/22/2009
MSDN updates
Scott Hanselman did a great post about some of the new and upcoming features of MSDN that everyone...
Date: 04/20/2009
ASP.NET MVC and JSON and when do you use Async
I wanted to post somewhat of a discussion starter around some of the new technologies that ASP.NET...
Date: 04/03/2009
Silverlight 3 RIA controls and how they load
If you have started playing with the RIA controls for Silverlight, one thing that you will need to...
Date: 04/02/2009
Microsoft Elevate America
If you are thinking about a career in IT, this is a great new think that you can look into. ...
Date: 04/01/2009
ASP.NET Troubleshooting
So with how long ASP.NET has been out for now, I am really curious to know how people go about...
Date: 03/24/2009
Feedback and Microsoft
There are a lot of different ways that feedback can get to Microsoft and a lot of different ways...
Date: 03/18/2009
ASP.NET MVC and SharePoint
If you have tried to get these two to work together, then you are probably had to deal with a lot of...
Date: 03/17/2009
Windows Azure
I have been looking into Windows Azure a lot more lately and wanted to post a little bit about some...
Date: 03/10/2009
New hotfix for problems with MVC and Visual Studio crashing
If you have experienced crashes in Visual Studio when opening view pages in design view or have had...
Date: 03/04/2009
Future Vision UX ideas
If you haven’t seen this video, check this out and see what you think of one view of the future:...
Date: 03/03/2009
Linq exception
If you have done much programming with Linq and using the relationships between tables, you may come...
Date: 02/25/2009
Silverlight updates – CBS and a contest
As reported on a few sites:...
Date: 02/19/2009
KB articles are moving
As noted here, we are going to be moving our KB articles off of support.microsoft.com and instead...
Date: 02/18/2009
Cloud applications
Now that we are getting closer to releasing Windows Azure, I wanted to check and see who is planning...
Date: 02/15/2009
We have a new language, F#
Have people started to use this yet? I was just introduced to it and think it has a lot of...
Date: 02/11/2009
New information coming
I am sorry that I haven’t written anything in a while. I will be back to writing more...
Date: 02/05/2009
Where do you go to find answers?
There are more and more sites coming online that allow you to ask questions. So which site(s)...
Date: 12/18/2008