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@TessFerrandez

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2015 3

  1. 15 features I love in Visual Studio 2015 – part 3 Debugging features
  2. 15 features I love in Visual Studio 2015 – part 2 IDE features
  3. 15 features I love in Visual Studio 2015 – part 1 editor features

2014 9

  1. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Introduction
  2. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 2
  3. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 1
  4. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 4
  5. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 5
  6. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 3
  7. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 6
  8. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 7
  9. Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 8

2013 1

  1. Displaying HTML Content in a RichTextBlock

2012 7

  1. Bizzy Bees Step 5: Adding some bees to the mix (XNA Walkthrough)
  2. Bizzy Bees Step 6: User interaction (XNA Walkthrough)
  3. Bizzy Bees Step 3: Adding flowers (XNA Walkthrough)
  4. Bizzy Bees Step 4: Making things move (XNA Walkthrough)
  5. Bizzy Bees Step 1: Setting the stage (XNA walkthrough)
  6. Bizzy Bees Step 2: Drawing the scene (XNA Walkthrough)
  7. XNA for Windows Phone Walkthrough–Creating the Bizzy Bees game

2011 1

  1. Entering geek territory or exiting geek territory? That’s the question…

2010 19

  1. Reader email: Need help troubleshooting perf/memory issues
  2. Fix for RestartWWWService=false in Visual Studio 2010
  3. Debug Diag 1.2 (Beta)
  4. Do you know ISA/Forefront and want to work in the cube next to mine (Sweden)?
  5. Capturing memory dumps for 32-bit processes on an x64 machine
  6. Help! !clrstack is not showing any method names
  7. Getting full user mode dumps automatically when your process crashes
  8. The SQL Server Support Team in Stockholm is hiring
  9. New Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 debugging content
  10. Debugging a classic ReaderWriterLock deadlock with SOSex.dll
  11. IIS and PAE
  12. New debugger extension for .NET (PSSCOR2)
  13. Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging)
  14. Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot)
  15. New commands in SOS for .NET 4.0 Part 1
  16. It’s time for TechDays Sweden again…
  17. System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrosException “Unrecognized element ‘setting’” and other unrecognized elements
  18. MSDN Radio (Swedish) - Tess Corner
  19. Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1

2009 31

  1. Advanced .NET Debugging book
  2. More debugging videos and a Resource List from my TechED and Oredev sessions on debugging asp.net applications
  3. WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released
  4. Debug Diag: mscorwks.dll is responsible for 372.46 MBytes worth of outstanding allocations
  5. Finding memory leaks with ANTS Memory Profiler
  6. Busy November, presenting at TechED Europe and Oredev
  7. Forms authentication fails after installing IIS 7.5
  8. How can I make you learn and benefit from my Blog? and how can I learn from you?
  9. Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications?
  10. Design tips for Developers
  11. A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state
  12. Visual Studio 2010 .net debugging resource
  13. Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0
  14. Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks
  15. Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues
  16. Unable to load DLL ‘dllname.dll’: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. 0x8007045A
  17. Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.
  18. .NET Exceptions: Quick WinDbg/SOS tip on how to dump all the .NET exceptions on the heap
  19. Validation of viewstate MAC failed after installing .NET 3.5 SP1
  20. Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
  21. .NET Rocks: Debugging chat
  22. Silverlight Game – Part 4 - Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around
  23. Silverlight Game – Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage
  24. Silverlight Game – Part 3 - Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels
  25. Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout
  26. Silverlight Game – Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl
  27. Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game
  28. .NET Memory Leak reader email: Are you really “leaking” .net memory
  29. .NET Memory Leak: To dispose or not to dispose, that’s the 1 GB question
  30. Troubleshooting .Net SQL Connectivity issues: What data should you gather?
  31. TechDays Sweden March 17th-18th 2009

2008 46

  1. Video of my TechEd presentation of Common Issues in ASP.NET and how to debug them with Windbg
  2. Debugging memory leaks in Compact Framework / Windows CE applications
  3. Planning a new .net debugging lab set – What do you want to see?
  4. Slides for interactive TechEd Sessions about debugging .net issues in windbg
  5. Slides and resources for TechED presentations about debugging .NET issues with Windbg
  6. Troubleshooting appdomain restarts and other issues with ETW tracing
  7. PDC announcements about Dump debugging for .NET 4.0
  8. Performance by Design – PDC 2008
  9. Troubleshooting ASP.NET issues with HTTPERR logs
  10. Debugging hangs, memory leaks or exceptions in silverlight apps with sos
  11. .NET Debugging at TechED EMEA (10-14 November in Barcelona)
  12. Swedish Screen casts of debugging labs and visual studio test
  13. Making it easier to debug .net dumps in windbg using .cmdtree
  14. ASP.NET Memory Issues - High Memory Usage with AjaxPro (fixed in current version)
  15. ASP.NET Memory - Identifying pages with high Viewstate
  16. OutOfMemoryExceptions while remoting very large datasets
  17. Debugging Puzzler - WinForms crash - Can you figure out what caused it?
  18. Questions on application domains, application pools and unhandled exceptions
  19. Vacation
  20. ASP.NET Memory Leak: Byte arrays rooted in System.Security.Policy.Evidence
  21. Bag of Chips: Installing XNA Games on your Zune
  22. Presenting at TechEd Developers Europe 2008, Barcelona
  23. CLR Inside Out: Large Object Heap Uncovered
  24. Setting .NET breakpoints in Windbg for applications that crash on startup
  25. My presentation on Troubleshooting ASP.NET applications at Oredev
  26. ASP.NET Performance issue: Large number of application restarts due to virus scanning
  27. IIS7 Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2.0
  28. "Failed to start stack walk: 80004005", "Following frames may be wrong" and other errors you may see in windbg
  29. Blog Interesting - 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking
  30. Why are some commands missing in sos for 2.0 compared to sos for 1.1?
  31. Setting breakpoints in .net code using !bpmd
  32. Developer Summit Sessions on Silverlight, MVC, FaceBook, and Work ethics amongst software developers
  33. .NET Performance Issues: What if I suspect that my performance problem is in SQL Server Part II
  34. .NET Performance Issue: What if I suspect that my performance problem is in SQL server?
  35. Recap of yesterdays ASP.NET Debugging Blog Chat
  36. Live blog chat about asp.net and debugging with windbg and sos (10 am EST/4 pm CET)
  37. Questions about .net Exceptions
  38. New version of SilverLatte and Espresso Blend available for download
  39. .NET Case Study: Stackoverflow Exception when using a complex rowfilter
  40. Testing
  41. Welcome to a blog chat on Wednesday about ASP.NET and Debugging
  42. ASP.NET Viewstate error - Validation of viewstate MAC failed
  43. I'm presenting at ExpertZone Developer Summit 2008 (in Sweden)
  44. When a mommy and a daddy love each other...
  45. More ASP.NET debugging with SOS
  46. Using Reflector to search through code and resolve .NET issues

2007 24

  1. Getting Started with Windbg
  2. ASP.NET Crash: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException
  3. Performance Testing Web Applications - New Patterns and Practices guide
  4. My Team is Hiring
  5. ASP.NET 2.0 OutputCaching - Download dialog box after browsing with SmartPhone
  6. .NET Finalizer Memory Leak: Debugging with sos.dll in Visual Studio
  7. Creating dumps with Windbg and writing ADPlus Config files
  8. I'm presenting at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden Nov 13th-15th
  9. Debugging Script: Dumping out ASP.NET Session Contents
  10. Debugging Script: Dumping out current and recent ASP.NET Requests
  11. An attempt to improve the blog quality
  12. ASP.NET Memory Investigation
  13. More reading material
  14. ASP.NET Memory Issue: High memory usage in a 64bit w3wp.exe process
  15. Reading Material
  16. DigiGirlz Summer Camp 2007 - Sweden
  17. A Case of Invalid Viewstate
  18. Blog Post Index
  19. Post Index
  20. Bag of Chips: What should I do with my butler?
  21. WinDBG Scripts
  22. Swedish .NET Debugging PodCast
  23. .NET Garbage Collection PopQuiz
  24. Developer Summit 2007

2006 24

  1. Short note on some debugging related stuff...
  2. ASP.NET Crash: Bad CacheItemRemovedCallback - Part II
  3. ASP.NET 2.0 - Investigating .NET Exceptions with WinDbg (Compilation and Load Exceptions)
  4. My Blog posts in Chinese
  5. .NET Debugging - Reading material
  6. Upcomming Premier .NET debugging workshops in northern Europe
  7. .NET Memory usage - A restaurant analogy
  8. ASP.NET Quiz Answers: Does Page.Cache leak memory?
  9. ASP.NET Quiz - Does Page.Cache leak memory?
  10. ASP.NET Case Study: Lost session variables and appdomain recycles
  11. .Net exceptions - Tracking down where in the code the exceptions occurred
  12. ASP.NET 2.0 Crash case study: Unhandled exceptions
  13. ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production… then why is debug=true
  14. ASP.NET: Strong named assemblies should not be stored in the bin directory
  15. It's been a while
  16. .NET Crash: Managed Heap Corruption calling unmanaged code
  17. A .NET Crash: How not to write a global exception handler
  18. .NET Memory: My object is not rooted, why wasn't it garbage collected?
  19. ASP.NET Memory Leak Case Study: Sessions Sessions Sessions…
  20. Contacting Tess...
  21. A bag of chips – Math stuff… and books…
  22. ASP.NET Memory - How much are you caching? + an example of .foreach
  23. Request for feedback
  24. Debugging Tips: Use windbg as a calculator, a chat client and more…

2005 6

  1. Why do I get weird function names on my stack? (a discussion on symbols)
  2. Associate windbg with .dmp files
  3. What on earth caused my process to crash?
  4. !dumpheap –stat explained… (debugging .net leaks)
  5. I have a memory leak!!! What do i do? (defining the "where")
  6. Who is this OutOfMemory guy and why does he make my process crash when I have plenty of memory left?