.NET Internals and Advanced Debugging Techniques

By Mario Hewardt
Learn the internals of .NET and how to master the powerful Debugging Tools for Windows debuggers
Course info
Rating
(230)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Dec 21, 2011
Duration
4h 56m
Table of contents
CLR Internals
Introduction and Overview 8m Loading CLR Images 4m CLR Process Overview 2m Application Domains 8m Demo: Looking at application domains 4m Assemblies 6m Global Assembly Cache 4m Demo: Looking at assemblies 9m Assembly Manifest 1m Demo: Looking at assembly manifests 3m Modules 2m Types Overview 2m Value Types 3m Reference Types 2m Demo: Looking at types 2m Reference Type Metadata 3m Demo: Looking at syncblocks 3m Method Tables 2m Demo: Looking at method tables 4m Method Descriptors 1m Demo: Looking at method descriptors 3m Summary 1m
Core Debugging Tasks
Introduction and Overview 3m .NET Debugger extensions 3m Running the debuggers 3m Symbols 1m Command Categories 2m Loading the debugger extensions 3m Object Inspection 6m Demo: Object inspection 8m Code and Threads 4m Demo: Code and threads 2m Diagnostics 3m Demo: Diagnostics 4m CLR data structures 1m Postmortem debugging 4m Analyzing crash dumps 4m Demo: Postmortem debugging 3m Managed Debug Assistants (MDA) 3m Demo: Managed Debug Assistants (MDA) 4m Summary 2m
Garbage Collection
Introduction and Overview 4m Memory architecture 4m Workstation vs. Server 4m Memory Allocation Process 4m Demo: Memory Allocation Process 4m Generations 5m Demo: Generations 3m Roots 3m Demo: Roots 5m Finalization Overview 6m Finalization Internals 6m Demo: Finalization 7m Reclaiming Memory 2m Large Object Heap 2m Pinning 3m Memory Fragmentation 3m Demo: Memory Fragmentation 6m CLR 4.0 Enhancements 1m Summary 1m
Thread Synchronization
Introduction and Overview 5m Monitors 6m Demo: Monitors and object layout 8m Demo: Deadlock 9m Monitor recap 1m Reader/Writer Locks 5m Demo: Reader/Writer Locks 6m Win32 Lock Constructs 2m Demo: Win32 Lock Constructs 6m Summary 1m
Interoperability
Introduction and Overview 3m Platform Invocation (and demo) 5m COM Interop 8m Demo: COM Interop 4m Garbage Collection and Interop 2m Interop Managed Debug Assistant 3m Interop Leaks 3m Demo: COM Interop leak 5m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(230)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Dec 21, 2011
Duration
4h 56m
Description

This course is a deep dive into advanced .NET debugging. Learn how to use the powerful Debugging Tools for Windows debuggers as well as the internals of key CLR components to reduce the amount of time to resolution for tough bugs.

About the author
Mario Hewardt
About the author

Mario Hewardt is the author of Advanced Windows Debugging and Advanced .NET Debugging.

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