.NET Debugging Power Tools

Pluralsight

Course Summary

In this course we take a look at some powerful debugging tools as well as the new enhancements in the .NET garbage collector (4.5).

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Course Description

Join me as we take a whirl wind tour of some new and exciting debugging tools such as Visual Studio 2013 diagnostics, CLRMD, DebugDiag 2.0 as well as an in-depth discussion of the .NET 4.5 garbage collector enchangements.

Course Description

Join me as we take a whirl wind tour of some new and exciting debugging tools such as Visual Studio 2013 diagnostics, CLRMD, DebugDiag 2.0 as well as an in-depth discussion of the .NET 4.5 garbage collector enchangements.

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Course Syllabus

Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics for .NET
- 27m 17s

—Introduction 2m 25s
—Diagnostics Hub and Demo 2m 46s
—Enhanced Dump Analysis and Demo 8m 18s
—64bit Edit and Continue and Demo 3m 45s
—Return Value Inspection and Demo 2m 22s
—Async Debugging and Demo 5m 40s
—Summary 2m 1s

.NET 4.5(.x) Garbage Collection
- 32m 46s

—Introduction 2m 35s
—Background GC 2m 33s
—SustainedLowLatency 2m 8s
—x64 Large Object Support 2m 45s
—Large Object Heap - Free Lists 2m 10s
—Large Object Heap - Balancing 8m 39s
—Large Object Heap - Compaction 6m 27s
—SOS DumpHeap Switches 4m 7s
—Summary 1m 22s

Developing Custom Diagnostic Tools using .NET
- 24m 23s

—Introduction 3m 57s
—Sample Diagnostic Tool Requirements 3m 3s
—Step 1 - Adding CLRMD 2m 42s
—CLRMD Object Model 3m 14s
—Step 2 - Attaching to the Process 3m 35s
—Step 3 - Enumerating the Managed Heap 2m 51s
—Using the Large Object Heap Monitor 3m 23s
—Summary 1m 38s

Debug Diagnostics V2
- 35m 33s

—Introduction 4m 4s
—New Features of DebugDiag V2 3m 50s
—Installing and Running DebugDiag V2 2m 56s
—Dump Generation Based on Exception Message 4m 47s
—1st Chance Exception Logging and Exception Rates 4m 59s
—Custom Rule Development in .NET 5m 51s
—Implementing the DebugDiag Interfaces 2m 27s
—Writing the Custom Code 2m 57s
—Install and Test the Custom Rule 2m 20s
—Summary 1m 22s