Tag: Diagnostics from Visual Studio Blog

Cross Platform Managed Memory Dump Debugging

Mark DownieOctober 8, 2020Oct 8, 202010/8/20

With the release of Visual Studio 16.8 Preview 3 you now have the ability to open and analyze managed dumps collected on Linux and use the best in class debugging tools available in Visual Studio.

Disassembly improvements for optimized managed debugging

Mark DownieSeptember 14, 2020Sep 14, 202009/14/20

If you are focused on squeezing out the last bits of performance for your .NET service or application, you might choose to take advantage of JIT compiler optimizations. However, debugging optimized code can be a challenge. In this blog I’ll show you how the Disassembly Window can help you debug optimized code.

Database Profiling with Visual Studio

Esteban HerreraJuly 27, 2020Jul 27, 202007/27/20

Examine when database queries were executed and measure how long the take using Visual Studio's Performance Profiler.

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

Andy SterlandApril 28, 2020Apr 28, 202004/28/20

Ever had a bug in an async method that caused an exception? Been frustrated that the debugger doesn't show you where that exception happened? Or been frustrated when looking at an exception that has an inner exception, but the debugger doesn't easily show you where that exception was from? Starting from the Visual Studio 2019 16.5 release, the...

Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio

Mark DownieAugust 19, 2019Aug 19, 201908/19/19

When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Thankfully Visual Studio is a great tool for analyzing your apps memory dumps! In this post we show you how easy it can be to resolve the issue using Visual Studio.

Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger

Mark DownieJuly 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19

Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.

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