CSI .NET – Debugging .NET Applications, by Tess Ferrandez-Norlander

Memory leaks, hangs, and crashes are very hard to troubleshoot, especially if they don't happen on your machine.

We will look at techniques, strategies, and tools that you can use to troubleshoot these: WinDbg, DebugDiag, and even Visual Studio.

The session is very demo-heavy.

0:00 - Introduction
2:07 - Debugging high memory usage issues
20:11 - Garbage collection: Roots
25:37 - Garbage collection: Generations
28:53 - Large Object Heap
30:44 - Memory issues part 2
39:55 - Debugging performance issues
59:16 - Debugging crashes
1:02:34 - Q&A

Speaker: Tess Ferrandez-Norlander, Developer, Microsoft

Tess is a developer/data scientist working at Microsoft. Over the past 20 years, she has changed the way we do .NET debugging and has developed a large number of mobile apps. A couple of years ago, she moved into the world of data science and machine learning, working with a lot of the largest companies in Europe and beyond on really tough machine learning problems.
She has spoken at lots of conferences around the world on a wide variety of topics including deep .net debugging, UX, web development, and machine learning. You can also find her on Twitter at @TessFerrandez

[tharwania]

Wow, Very insightful, Thank you Tess and Jetbrains.