Bugslayer: SUPERASSERT Goes .NET

Bloated view state can be a real performance bottleneck for your Web app, but it can be difficult to diagnose. John Robbins creates a handy tool that records and reports the view state size for pages in your ASP.NET applications.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine November 2007

Windows Vista has a new API called Wait Chain Traversal (WCT), which allows you to determine when and why a process is deadlocked. Read on.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine July 2007

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine March 2007

This installment of Bugslayer covers the use of ADPlus to create a minidump of your Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 pro¬cesses on specific exceptions.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine November 2006

Visual Studio 2005 brought so many new features to the table that it can seem almost overwhelming. One of the most exciting additions is the new unit testing features found in the Test menu on the main menu bar.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine March 2006

By now, you've certainly heard about the big changes coming in Visual Studio® 2005, but when it's time to move your code over it will be the small things that trip you up. In this column, I want to cover two of the many excellent changes that you could easily overlook as you make the move to the new runtime and development tools.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine July 2005

In debugging some large Microsoft® . NET Framework-based ap-plications over the last few months, I've been spending more time looking at mini dumps than at live processes. This is mainly because in those large applications problems surface when the apps are running in production and not on test systems.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine March 2005

In the June 2004 installment of the Bugslayer column, I introduced the amazing FxCop, which analyzes your . NET assemblies for errors and problems based on code that violates the . NET Design Guidelines.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine September 2004

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine June 2004

As you saw in last month's column, . NET internationalization support is excellent and allows you to move your application to a world audience quite easily. Before you jump into this month's discussion, you may want to go back and read the March column.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine April 2004

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine March 2004

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine November 2003

Hidden deep inside the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 you'll find Son of Strike (SOS). If your app is a pure managed code, your development and debugging tasks are easily handled by existing Microsoft tools. If you're on border between managed and native code SOS is your man.

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine June 2003

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine June 2002

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine March 2002

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine January 2002

John Robbins

MSDN Magazine October 2001