Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS

Last night I gave a presentation for the Pasco County .NET User’s Group on Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS. We covered some basics of the CLR and Memory Management in .NET, and then how to troubleshoot Crashes, Hangs and Memory Leaks when dealing with .NET applications in production.

If you are interested in learning more, I’d highly recommending checking out Tess Ferrandez’s blog where she has a set of labs for really digging into this stuff. If you are trying to debug an application or service that is crashing on startup, the blog post I mention is on my site, and the KB article for automatically attaching a debugger to a service on startup is KB824344.

Finally, you can download WinDBG from the Microsoft Web Site, and you can download the sample application here. The slides are available on SlideShare or you can download the PowerPoint presentation.