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Friday, December 9, 2011

Debugging Tools to Diagnose a Memory Leak

Debugging and diagnosing a memory leak or an OutOfMemoryException can be a daunting and challenging task. Fortunately, there are a number of tools to help; some of these are "paid license" apps, but there are even more tools that are free. There is a little bit of irony here; IMHO, the better tools are the free ones...

Free Tools
Licensed Tools
Hope this helps!


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Monday, June 6, 2011

Finally a good free multi-monitor tool

timstall: Tool - WinSplit Revolution - move windows between ...: "A coworker showed me a useful (and free!) tool that conveniently positions open windows on your screen. The tool is Winsplit Revolution , ..."
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Friday, April 29, 2011

New WinDbg Extension available

I'm happy to announce that a new version of the WinDbg debugging extension PSSCOR2 (now called PSSCOR4) has been released.  It is available for public download here: 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a06a0fea-a4d4-434e-a527-d6afa2e552dd
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Whitepaper on the Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1 - IIS debugging and debugdiag - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Whitepaper on the Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1 - IIS debugging and debugdiag - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

IIS Tools that you should have...

Here is a list of IIS tools I've used in the past and their respective links.  Please note that all of these tools are FREE and widely used in the industry.
 
IIS Web Deploy 2.0
 
 
IIS 6.0 Resource Kit (many tools included here – most helpful are probably IIS 6.0 Migration Tool and the IIS Metabase Explorer)
 
 
IIS Diagnostics Kit – IIS Diag
 
This includes a number of tools which help diagnose various types of problems with IIS setup and configuration:
  • AuthDiag - authentication and ACL problems
  • SSL Diag - SSL-related problems
  • SMTP Diag - smtp-related issues
  • Log Parser - allows for easy reading of IIS log files
  • Debug Diag - allows you to create memory dumps manually or automatically when IIS hangs.  It also can run a memory ananlysis from the memory dump captured!
  • and others...

Event Log Explorer - allows you to create custom queries and filters against anything in the Event Viewer – very cool!


And a whole list of the other great tools from the IIS Team at Microsoft:


 
 
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Tools for Assisting with Collection and Analyzing of Data for Problem Diagnosis

I was going through my Google Bookmarks and found a bunch of tools that are extremely helpful in diagnosing  many problems that occur on a web/app server and and interpreting the data collected. I’ve used all of them; they are all free and well known and used within the Community.  By no means is this an exhaustive list of all of the Tools and Add-Ins that I use - I'll get around to posting those someday : )

I’d start with the Data Collector. You can collect everything with Data Collector and then use the Log Parser and Visual Log Parser to help aggregate the data and even run queries against it. You may already know about some of these – but for those you haven’t seen, you should take a look!

Data Collector (supports IIS6 & IIS7, and can pull most other logs from any server):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carloc/archive/2010/02/01/idevdatacollector.aspx

Log Parser 2.2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en

Visual Log Parser:
http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/

Log File Analysis:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2007/06/21/powerful-log-file-analysis-for-everyone-releasing-textanalysistool-net.aspx

Event Log Explorer:
http://www.eventlogxp.com/

IIS Log Analyzer (does graphs and reports):
http://www.iis.net/community/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1864

IIS Diagnostics Toolkit (a suite of tools diagnosing Authentication, Authorization, SSL, Crash/Hang, etc.):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9bfa49bc-376b-4a54-95aa-73c9156706e7

and then of course the "big daddy" bunch of them all - Debugging Tools for Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

I hope you find these useful : )
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