See the I/O You Caused by Getting Your Diagnostic Tracing into Process Monitor
Recently I was working on a performance bug for a client where our hypothesis was that there was too much file I/O going on in the process, which was causing […]
ProcMonDebugOutput Now on GitHub
A few years ago Mark Russinovich and I put together a feature in SysInternal’s Process Monitor where you can add tracing statements to the log. (Here’s the original post.) The […]
ProcDump Post Mortem Switches: Order Matters
This week I’m working behind the “Great Firewall” in China and Twitter is blocked by the Chinese government, but my blog is not. I would have tweeted this but instead […]
Productivity Power Tools Used to Fix Itself (@tasks rocks)
The Productivity Power Tools extension is one of those must haves in Visual Studio, especially if you are showing Visual Studio as a presenter. Typing PresentOn in the Quick Launch […]
Fixing Outlook Hangs
Wintellect’s most important client, my wife, comes to me and says that her Outlook desktop application is all messed up. It hasn’t connected and downloaded emails in over five hours. […]
TFS Build Numbers & File Version Now with Hosted TFS Build Support
Over the years I’ve been posting on the blog here at Wintellect a set of MSBuild tasks that make it easy to get the TFS Build number during a build […]
Automatically Load the Right SOS for the Minidump
Don’t you just love the following error message when trying to debug a minidump with SOS and WinDBG? The version of SOS does not match the version of CLR you […]
Visual Studio vs. the PowerShell Command Line
Numerous times in the last month I’ve been working with different teams and when I whip out my PowerShell window and start doing all the magic, especially with Visual Studio […]
In Seattle/Olympia/Portland? Want to learn how to maximize IntelliTrace?
On May 9th, I’ll be speaking at the South Sound .NET User Group in Olympia, WA on all about IntelliTrace. See location and signup info here. IntelliTrace is the first […]