Archive for December 2004

 
 

Tracking down managed memory leaks (how to find a GC leak) in 7 steps

Step 1: Run your process and put it in the state you are curious about
Step 2: Use tasklist to find its process ID
Step 3: Use VADump to get a summary of the process
Step 4: Attach Windbg and load SOS
Step 5: Get the CLR memory summary
Step 6: Dump Type Specific Information
Step 7: Identify the roots of suspected leaks

From Rico Mariani

Wow! The MSN Toolbar Suite (with MSN Desktop Search ) Beta is available for download

List of features

  • Desktop Search feature, which lets you find anything on your computer—even within e-mail messages and their attachments.
  • There’s now an MSN Toolbar for Microsoft Office Outlook, the MSN Deskbar in the Windows taskbar, and an MSN Toolbar that works in both Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer.
  • MSN Toolbar lets you save address, sign-in, and credit card information and fills out web forms for you.
  • It has great integration with Hotmail, My Spaces and MSN Messenger

http://beta.toolbar.msn.com

Garbage Collection Links

Difference between Dispose(true) and Dispose(false)?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconimplementingdisposemethod.asp

Forcing GarbageCollection
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconforcingcollection.asp

Why I need to call WaitForPendingFinalizers?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGCClassWaitForPendingFinalizersTopic.asp

Suppressing the Finalize method is explained here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGCClassSuppressFinalizeTopic.asp

Jessica explains all this in one of her articles:
http://www.martnet.com/~jfosler/articles/UsingDispose.htm

[Via Subhag Oak]

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Community Technical Preview available for download.
This is the first release of Express Manager - new database management tool for Express.
Check out http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/

MSN Web Messenger is now online

MSN Web Messenger

[Via Dan Crevier]


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