Visual Studio: How to: Debug in Mixed Mode

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kbaht4dh(v=vs.80).aspx

!htrace: The difference between the two snapshot is too large

Click on Debug > Break (or just CTRL+Break)

Type “!htrace –diff” without the quotation marks and then press Enter.

Note: By default, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 keep a history of 4000 handles open and close operations.
With !htrace you can enable to keep a much higher history by doing the following:

Type “!htrace –enable 0x20000” without the quotation marks and then press Enter.
In this example, we are increasing the handle history to 128000 (decimal, 0x20000 hexadecimal).


Link:- http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2011/12/19/how-to-troubleshoot-a-handle-leak.aspx

MSIL tutorials

The following is some useful links to MSIL tutorials.

• Introduction to MSIL by Kenny Kerr
• ILDASM is Your New Best Friend by John Robbins
• MSIL Tutorial by Alex F

Windows 7 No Longer Supports Full Memory Dumps??

A new registry value has been added that will override this behavior and always cause the crash dump file to be generated. By setting the \HKLM\System\CCS\Control\CrashControl\AlwaysKeepMemoryDump DWORD value to 1 you will guarantee that you will always have a crash dump file after crashing the system.

For details fo though this:- http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=545