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Roundup #3 – VS Live Share, ML.NET, Desktop .NET Core, EF6.3 on .NETCore3, Hyper-V Android Emulator

Since this week was Microsoft Build 2018, these were the top 5 things that came out of it for me.  Obviously I’m leaning towards the topics that affect me the most.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.   Visual Studio Live Share If you work remotely or want to screen share with a co-worker in another office, you know how terrible most of current solutions are.  VS Live share was announced in preview back in November 2017 and is now available. It doesn’t matter what type of app… Read More »Roundup #3 – VS Live Share, ML.NET, Desktop .NET Core, EF6.3 on .NETCore3, Hyper-V Android Emulator

Roundup #2

dotMemory Unit dotMemory Unit is a unit testing framework which allows you to write tests that check your code for all kinds of memory issues. You can now extend NUnit, MSTest or another .NET unit testing framework with the functionality of a memory profiler. Perfect fit for any workflow: integrated with Visual Studio, works with stand-alone unit test runners, Continuous Integration ready. Last but not least, dotMemory Unit is free. This week I was running into some memory issues with 3rd party library.  I just stumbled up on dotMemory Unit and proved to be really useful to verify no memory… Read More »Roundup #2

Troubleshooting StackOverflow Exceptions

Is your .NET application randomly crashing? In Production? Without any relevant application logs?  You may be hitting a StackOverflowException if you see exception code 0xc00000fd in the event log. Here’s how to start troubleshooting StackOverflow Exceptions. 0xc00000fd First take a look in your event log.  If you see a log similar to this: Faulting application name: MyApp.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0xdfd8c80b Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.7.2558.0, time stamp: 0x59d413ce Exception code: 0xc00000fd The important part here is the exception code 0xc00000fd is a StackOverflowException. Troubleshooting a .NET StackOverflowException First thing I would recommend is looking for any recursion… Read More »Troubleshooting StackOverflow Exceptions