Category: Debugging

Managed Debugging and related API or tools

Event Pipe : Production Diagnostics in the .NET Core Era

A simple trace and analysis application to showcase, how Event Pipe in .NET Core works for taking a trace of a .NET Core process and how to extract managed thread stack from the resulting trace which is very useful when analyzing performance issues.

Sukesh Ashok Kumar July 3, 2020 1 Comment

Automate Memory Dump analysis with Windbg commands in C#

AutoDebug : A simple Automated Debugger to run Windbg Commands and also query .NET CLR Runtime data in C#.

How to enumerate Modules in each App Domain using ClrMD

Lets look at the code to enumerate Modules in each App Domain. But first questions, what is AppDomain? Application domain or AppDomain is nothing but a logical region where .NET […]

How to get ClrInfo and Dac info using ClrMD

Lets take a look at some basic CLR information which is essential before delving into other kinds of data for troubleshooting. Also keep in mind DAC information is extremely important to get data about CLR Runtime.

How to write DumpHandles of SOS using ClrMD

So here is the code to dump the Object handles grouped into different types. Also a summary of all handles at the end.

How to achieve DumpHeap of SOS using ClrMD

Let us see how to use ClrMD to extract the same details as !sos.dumpheap command included in SOS extension available through Windbg. This has been an important command for troubleshooting memory and performance issues in .NET process or process memory dumps.