MiniDumper is a diagnostic tool for collecting memory dumps of .NET applications. Dumps created by MiniDumper are significantly smaller than full-memory dumps collected by, for example, procdump. However, they contain enough information to diagnose most of the issues in the…
This is a repost of my article, originally published on CodeProject on 24 May 2016. The Story of a Memory Dump Memory dumps are a common way to diagnose various problems with our applications (such as memory leaks or application…
Some time ago Sasha Goldstein wrote on his blog a post about a new open-source tool he created: minidumper. The idea is great and allows you to create more compact memory dumps for .NET processes. I completely agree with Sasha…
Recently, the idea of protected variables in TFS struck my attention and pushed me to do some more research on how exactly those variables are stored. I hope I will write a separate post on that subject, but today I…
