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Ed has over 10 years experience as a windows engineer, developer and sql server dba. He is an expert in troubleshooting crashes and performance issues who designs, develops, debugs, sniffs and perfmons his way through problems and solutions across platforms and environments. By day a sql dba in london at a leading dot com and by night he is a new author writing on .net and sql server and occasionally seen with a beer in hand. Ed can be contacted at edwardelliott@hotmail.co.uk.
How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness
by Edward Elliott | 25 November 2010 |  4 comments |
If your website is suffering from slow performance, it's easy to blame the code, but not always correct. Even in if you're using .NET, you need to be aware of how your memory is being managed, and sometimes it's .NET that's the culprit. Read more...
Investigating .NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection
by Edward Elliott | 24 March 2010 |  2 comments |
Investigating a subtle memory leak can be tricky business, but things are made easier by using The .NET framework's tool SOS (Son of Strike) which is a debugger extension for debugging managed code, used in collaboration with the Windows debugger. Read more...
A Look at Exceptions in .NET Applications
by Edward Elliott | 03 December 2009 |  1 comment |
Memory dumps are a wonderful way of finding out what caused an exception in a managed .NET application, particularly if it is happening in a production application. It is when tracking exceptions in applications where you can't use Visual Studio that the techniques... Read more...
.Net Debugging? Don't give me none of your VS
by Edward Elliott | 14 October 2009 |  8 comments |
Visual Studio is fine for most debugging purposes. Just occasionally, it isn't practicable, or there are other quicker ways of doing it with a user-mode debugger. Edward argues that debugging in MSIL or assembly language is a strangely liberating experience and can... Read more...
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