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Debugging from an ASP.NET and Azure Engineer. Posts are from customer issues and things I feel may be useful.
Linq features to make smaller code
I have been working on some code that involves using Linq to query a database and came across...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 12/12/2008
What do you need to troubleshoot Azure?
Looking to the future with cloud computing, it is going to become increasingly important to have...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 11/19/2008
Insides of Azure
Want to get more details about Windows Azure? There is a really helpful video done by Channel...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 11/14/2008
Windows Azure and you
So I have started to look at the new Windows Azure that we just announced, you can download the...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 11/11/2008
IntelliSense for jQuery
As for reported here, we now have an official IntelliSense documentation file that will allow you to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/30/2008
Strange callstacks
How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/29/2008
Creating an Auto-complete textbox
It seems that auto-complete is very popular these days with different sites. So I wanted to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/27/2008
Linq – Do we need another way to access databases?
This was the question that was burning on my mind when I first heard about Linq. I was...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/20/2008
New place to find some great web information from Microsoft
There is a new site that has a lot of really cool information from Microsoft in the web space. ...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/17/2008
Who are you most looking forward to listening to at the PDC
There are a lot of great speakers and a lot of great topics this year at the PDC. Who are you...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/16/2008
Videos are coming – suggested topics?
So I have started to create some videos showing various things that you can do. Are there...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/13/2008
XPerf: A CPU Sampler
Seema just had a great about using XPerf to troubleshoot CPU issues when using Silverlight. ...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/10/2008
Getting SOS to work, a historical view
When you try to debug a managed application using Windbg and SOS, there have been issues over the...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/09/2008
ASP.NET Tip: Understanding the caching of data in SOS
The sos that comes with the debugger, in the clr10 directory, has a lot of additional features and...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/08/2008
ASP.NET and Codeplex
Just wondering how many people are using the projects up on Codeplex and what you guys think. ...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/07/2008
Tips for Reporting Services
We tend to get an issue in the ASP.NET support group from time to time that is around Reporting...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/06/2008
ASP.NET Tip: When to use which Session Server
There are 3 different ways you can store session in an ASP.NET application: InProc (default mode)...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/03/2008
Tail calling in .NET
Thought I would give a little details on one type of optimization that it is possible to see and...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 10/02/2008
ASP.NET Tip: Letting Microsoft know about your problems/requests
Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/30/2008
Event Log message after installing .NET update – part 2
If you try to install a .NET update, MS07-040 for example, you may see an event log like: Event...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/29/2008
The PDC this year…
Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/29/2008
Event Log message after installing .NET update
If you try to install a .NET update, MS08-052 for example, you may see an event log that looks like:...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/26/2008
ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole
There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash. The most common one is an...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/25/2008
ANSWER: POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3
This issue is an interesting one in that there are more then one problem here that will cause high...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/24/2008
Why the questions and what am I going to do with the data
So over the past few weeks, I have been asking a lot of questions on my blog to get a feel for what...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/24/2008
POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3
Imagine you are a developer and your boss comes to you complaining that your piece of code has been...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/23/2008
Who uses SOSEX and what for?
Another thing I am curious to know is if anyone is using SOSEX and what advantages it gives you for...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/22/2008
How are you using ASP.NET and Silverlight?
I have posted in the past about some new things that are coming with DeepZoom and the like. ...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/19/2008
ASP.NET Tips: Careful Use of Static's
Not sure how many people realize it, but when you start dealing with multiple users access a system...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/18/2008
High Memory part 6 – Fragmentation revisited
I have talked about a bunch of commands used to troubleshoot a managed memory problem in the past...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/17/2008
How does maxconnection work for a System.Net.HttpWebRequest using a proxy?
When using a WebRequest, one important thing to keep in mind is how many connections are allowed to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/16/2008
Slow performance of a GridView inside an UpdatePanel
Here is an interesting problem we ran into recently. The customer had a large GridView that was...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/15/2008
Debugger Extension update
The debugger extension that we were working on getting out with the debugger package has hit some...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/12/2008
Updating a web site to apply a security patch with the help of Hyper-V
With the release of the latest security updates, it made me think about how painful it is to have to...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/11/2008
How do you test the performance of your web site?
I wanted to get a feel for what tools people are using to test the performance of their...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/10/2008
SOS Tip: Using help
This is just a quick little note to remind everyone that the !help command in sos can be very...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/09/2008
Who is using MVC?
So MVC have been out now for a while, and I have seen a few things come by my way with it. I...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/08/2008
Important blogs to visit regularly
While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/05/2008
Microsoft Optimization for your IT
I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/04/2008
Any other .NET 3.5 SP1 issues?
So I recently posted Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1, what I wanted to do is see how SP1...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/03/2008
Improving Time-Critical Code written in C
Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code. You have to understand...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/02/2008
.NET 3.5 SP1 Source released
If you remember my previous blog about Debugging .NET Framework Source Code, well we have now...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 09/01/2008
ANSWER: Logic Puzzle: Jelly Beans
So this is the answer to the logic puzzle that was posted here. The fewest amount of bags that you...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/29/2008
IE8 Beta 2 Update
So I have now been able to install Beta 2 on my machine and I just wanted to give my thoughts on it...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/29/2008
IE8 Beta 2 is now out
In case you haven't seen already, as announced here, IE8 Beta 2 can now be downloaded from...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/28/2008
Logic Puzzle: Jelly Beans
Hope this one is a little harder then the last one. Please keep in mind that all comments will...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/27/2008
ASP.NET Tip: Keep hidden files hidden
I have seen a few cases of this so I wanted to let everyone know. If you install the FrontPage...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/26/2008
SOS Best Practice: Match the SOS version with the process being analyzed
I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that...
Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/25/2008