CHAPTER 14
Debugging Async—Beyond Visual Studio
Visual Studio is a very powerful debugging tool. However, by its very nature, it struggles to provide insight into issues experienced on production machines. Developers cannot install development tools on production machines or attach an interactive debugger; as you have seen, hitting a breakpoint halts execution of all threads in the process, which means the production system halts. Instead, we need an approach that gives us data that we can mine, offline, to discover the root cause of a bug or performance issue. Generally this means using memory dumps.
Memory Dumps
A memory dumpis a file containing ...
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