I can't get source code file name and line number information using !clrstack in the .Net 2.0 version of SOS. Is this a regression from the 1.1 version? If not, what's the trick?...more >>

I'll try to keep my explanation as simple as I can but leave in the relevant details. We're developing in c#. Our main application can dynamically load assemblies ( plugins) that support a certain interface (to do "extra" functions). Our intent is that these assemblies won't be updated...more >>

Is there a way to find out how many threads are being used in the .net thread pool and how many functions are waiting for a free thread? ...more >>

I've got third party library (unmanaged code) which creates objects. Those objects have thread specific data. If I create a wrapper for .net remoting which is the best way to force thread affinity ? If I user server activated objects ( a'la factory pattern) then if I understand correctl...more >>

Hi! Is there any way to stop crashing the default appdomain if there is an unhandled exception in a secondary (child) appdomain? Writing unmanaged code is ok. Thanks for your help, Károly...more >>

We have a native Windows DLL (let's call it native.dll) we developed a .NET interface for (let's say managed.dll). When a .NET application now uses the ..NET interface to talk to the Windows DLL we always thought that managed.dll must be copied to the application directory (where the .NET appl...more >>

My team has been struggling with an issue involving assemblies dynamically loaded into separate app domains in the context of an .Net extension running in a third party executable via COM Interop. After studying what's available online and reading thoroughly through most of Steven Pratschner's ...more >>

Hi, I have an issue on production box and I got a crash dump using ADPlus. I am trying to analyze the exception and got an object dump for exception object. I can see the function name where exception occured but can not see the parameter values passed in that is causing the exception. ...more >>

I'd like to find a way to use the AssemblyResolve callback to resolve all types, not just those that the loader cant find via probing. Is there a way to short circuit the loader to do this? The main reason, is this is a great way to implement custom dynamic proxies without having to go thr...more >>

After creating my policy file assembly I find that I cannot install it into the GAC without the corresponding xml configuration file. The documentation I read seems to imply that the policy in the xml file is encapsulated into the policy assembly. Is there a way to create the policy file wit...more >>

Hello, We have a global error handler in our .NET 2.0 Framework application and I am wondering if there is a possiblity that an error message (i.e. ex.GetBaseException.ToString) could display any program data or database field names, etc. The application reads data from a database and if a...more >>

Does anyone kown how to convert Image to Icon and Icon to Image easily? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have been working on dynamic method generation. My code has been working fine for most cases however I don't seem to be able to execute a dynamic method that contains a try/catch clause. Specifically, when the call to Invoke() is made the CLR throws a TargetInvocationException. The ...more >>

I tend to build high performance system, and when doing this stateless programming is at a premium. This often means all of the public methods on a class are defined as static. I often find that the .Net framework has poor support for doing this. Interface definitions don't allow static met...more >>

Hello, I need to be able to catch clr exceptions in unmanaged code. Anyone know how to do that? I'm able to catch native types, so there is obviously some marshalling going on, but I don't know what type the Exception^ is cast to. Any help will be greatly appreciated! The following examp...more >>

Hi, Wondering if anyone can make better sense of this app dump than I. Working on app that perioldiclly hangs, with maxed out cpu. The app is reading data from hearing aids ( 1 or 2) connected via a serial port to an external device that interfaces w/hearing aid. App is a win forms app ...more >>

I am writing a debugging class that will drill into a class and dump all the fields in the class. How can I determine if a field is an object that can have it's own fields or a simple type like an int or double? Sam ...more >>

I'm porting win32 code (non visual component or "user control") to .NET. In win32 code, I was using Windows messages between threads to signal events form a worker thread to another thread. This was done to make sure an event handler was executed in the context of the thread having created an i...more >>

Hello guys, Recently I've tried to load an assembly from a byte stream using the method Load(Byte[] rawAssembly). The test assembly was a single-module assembly that referenced nothing but mscorlib. I've renamed the assembly to someting messy, and then got its contents to a byte array using F...more >>

I'm using VStudio2005 and working with a VB.Net windows form application. The project is located in the My Documents folder... under a UNC shared path. \\fs1\users\cthunell\My Documents\My Projects (something like this) I'm getting a SecurityException was unhandled.. Request for the Permissi...more >>

We've got a nasty out-of-memory problem which is currently evading capture. It occurs when there appears to be plenty of memory left. I've been trying to use WinDbg to investigate, and have finally got a decent dump. Summary and extracts are below. Anyone got any ideas? There's one particu...more >>

Hi , I need some information / clarification wrt to above mentioned GC methods , which we can call in our program to halt the thread execution till the point GC comes into the picture and accomplish the relevant business . Now , i am having a stress test suite where around 100 - 200 worker th...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to load different versions of CLR into one process? We need this in order to be able to use .Net 2 add-ins and .Net 1 add-ins in Excel at the same time. -- Best regards, Ruslan Popov...more >>

Hi everybody! As we all know, die Garbage Collector minimizes the time needed for a collection by using generations. When an object remains uncollected, it moves one generation up. Higher generations are not collected such often as lower generations. When an object lives in the generation 2...more >>

We created an asp.net 2.0 app, which sends smtp email using System.Web.mail. The app is in an IIS 6 application pool isolated to 2.0 apps on a 2003 server. The app worked fine for a few days; recently however it began failing when sending to external addresses (it works fine if the recipien...more >>

Hi, I have two questions about managed/native thread affinity in applications hosted by ASP.NET, running under version 2.0 of the .NET Framework: 1) Is it ever possible for two or more managed threads to be multiplexed onto the same native thread? 2) Is it ever possible for a managed th...more >>