.NET Crowd Kaunas meeting #1 / .NET Crowd Vilnius meeting #3 Giedrius Banaitis - "Less known ways to debug stuff"

1. Less known ways to debug
stuff
Giedrius Banaitis

2. - Logs and traces
- Attaching to process
- Post mortem debugging

3. Logs and traces
Own logs
Event logs
IIS logs
IntelliTrace
PerfMon
Process monitor
etc.

4. Process monitor demo

5. Attaching to process
Name Console/GUI Unmanaged code Managed code Kernel debugging
Remote
debugging
cdb Console Yes Limited (sos.dll) No Yes
cordbg Console No Yes No Yes
dbgclr GUI Limited Yes No No
kd Console Yes Limited (sos.dll) Yes Yes
mdbg Console/GUI No Yes No No
ntsd Console Yes Limited (sos.dll) No Yes
Visual Studio GUI Yes Yes No Yes
windbg GUI Yes Limited (sos.dll) Yes Yes

6. Mdbg demo

7. Post mortem
Visual studio
WinDbg
CLRMD (mdbg)

8. Extra stuff: Debugging visualizers

9. Paid stuff
OzCode - 70$ personal, 105$ for companies
Ncrunch - 159$ personal, 289$ for companies
IntelliDebugger - 29$ personal, 49$ for companies
.NET reflector – 199$ professional version

10. Q&A