.NET Debugging Tips

Useful series of articles for helping diagnose runtime .NET issues around performance, threads, hangs and memory leaks.

.NET Debugging Demos Lab

Dump the Stack Trace for a running Windows Process

Ever wanted to dump the stack for all threads for a running Win32 process then follow this guide:

Getting Stack Traces of a Running .NET Process

This suggests using ntsd.exe – so to interpret results:

Fixing Visual Studio 2003 Debugging after installing Studio 2008

You know the story you have to maintain an old project written in 2003 but you have already moved ahead and have installed 2008 – but you then install 2003 and your project in 2003 no longer builds – well its because 2008 breaks all old debugging configurations – to get 2003 to debug again follow these steps:

After the upgrade the debugger in Visual Studio 2003 will be broken. This is because the "Machine Debug Service" no longer starts. To fix:

• Start a command prompt
• Change directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug
• Run mdm.exe /unregserver
• Run mdm.exe /regserver
• Start the Machine Debug Service