Heap allocation stack traces are useless when using certain versions of the MSVC runtime. Is it possible to modify and rebuild MSVCR80 to avoid this?
Category Archives: Windows
Where’s my window?
Where’s my window gone? I’m sure I left it around here somewhere…
A WPF custom control in F#
What F# language and syntax features are required to implement a fundamentally object-oriented WPF custom control?
Also posted in .NET, F#, Software Development, WPF Tagged .NET, F#, guidattribute fsharp, wpf 2 Comments
Don’t do anything in DllMain… Please
Thinking of adding some code to your DLLs DllMain function? STOP!
Also posted in Debugging, Software Development, Uncategorized Tagged c++, COM, Debugging, dll, win32 Leave a comment
FormatException in WPF DataBinding
A FormatException is generated by the WPF DataBinding diagnostics if the original exception text contains curly brackets.
Also posted in .NET, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Tagged .NET, DataBinding, FormatException, visualstudio, wpf Leave a comment
Getting IUnknown from __ComObject
How do you find the unmanaged COM object that’s being referenced by a .NET object?
Finding the largest free block of address space
I’ve been seeing problems recently with fragmented virtual address space. During the lifetime of a process, bits and pieces of memory are allocated throughout the 2GB 32-bit address space to such an extent that large contiguous blocks of free space are no longer available. If anything subsequently requires a large block of memory (like, for [...]
Also posted in Software Development, WinDbg Tagged address space, c++, perfmon, private bytes, win32, WinDbg 2 Comments
Diagnosing out of memory errors with VMMap – Part 2
(I had problems with WordPress choking on this long post, so I’ve split it into 2 parts. The first part is here. This is the second part).
Diagnosing out of memory errors with VMMap
VMMap is a new tool from Mark Russinovich et al that’s very useful for diagnosing virtual memory/address space exhaustion issues. I describe it here, and give some information that should help you interpret what it reports.
Also posted in Debugging, Software Development, WinDbg Tagged memory, private bytes, VMMap, win32, WinDbg 2 Comments
Troubleshooting an InvalidProgramException
One of the developers who uses the .NET/COM interop DLL that I wrote recently informed me that when they used it in a certain way, they would get a fatal System.InvalidProgramException. Nasty. So I set about seeing how I could find out exactly why this was happening: here are the gory details…
To spoil the ending [...]
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