Slides and resources for TechED presentations about debugging .NET issues with Windbg

I still have to figure out a way to host the video from the break-out session but until then, here are the slides for my presentations (attached).

And here are a list of some of the tools and resources I used for the presentations

Tool/Resource Comment Download Link
Debugging Tools for windows Windbg, adplus etc. https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
Debug Diag 1.1 Analyzes dumps, good for native memory leaks https://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3&displaylang=en
Cmdtree Command and textfile to get a treeview with commands in windbg https://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2008/09/17/windbg-cmdtree-file-that-eases-some-sos-pain.aspx
Tinyget Poor mans stresstest (sends httprequests) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/840671
Using SOS in Visual studio   https://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2007/10/19/net-finalizer-memory-leak-debugging-with-sos-dll-in-visual-studio.aspx
Reflector Show code when you just have the dll https://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/
Viewstate decoder Decodes viewstate from dumps or “view source” https://www.pluralsight.com/toolcontent/ViewStateDecoder21.zip
Buggy bits labs Hands on Labs to learn .net debugging with windbg https://blogs.msdn.com/tess/pages/net-debugging-demos-information-and-setup-instructions.aspx
John Robbins debugging book Best book ever about .net debugging https://www.microsoft.com/MSpress/books/8650.aspx
SOS Assist GUI for dump debugging https://www.thinktecture.com/SOSAssist
Process explorer Task manager on steroids… Make sure to have a look at Mark Russinovich’s video “The case of the unexplained” under related links https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Process monitor Regmon, filemon etc. packed into one tool… https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Have fun,

Tess

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