Thursday 10 May 2012

Timeouts when debugging in VS

If you are debugging a  w3wp process in VisualStudio, but it always breaks after some short time of inactivity, go to inetmgr, open Application Pools, select your pool, Advanced properties, and set Ping property to False:


Thursday 3 May 2012

WinDBG bible. Chapter one.

And here I am, starting bunch of posts (I hope there will be more than one!) about simple windbg usage. All you need to know if you are new to memory debugging, but want to step in it.



First of all. What is memory dump? Memory dump can be simply explained as "photo" taken of all memory consumed by our process at some point of time. Looking at this photo, we can everybody pictured in it, and blame somebody for taking too much space or jumping into the foreground scene :)

How to create memory dump?