--- title: ".Net Debugging Resources" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/net-debugging-resources.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/net-debugging-resources.html" published: "2003-05-26T09:42:00" updated: "2003-05-26T09:42:00" tags: ["Other"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Note: If you think something is missing don't hesitate and drop a comment. Articles: Debugging Articles on MSDN Debugging in Visual Basic .NET Ten Steps to Successful Debugging (in ASP.NET) How to debug script in Visual…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # .Net Debugging Resources By Roy Osherove May 26, 2003 In [Other](https://osherove.com/blog/category/other) **Historical article** · Originally published May 26, 2003; technical details may be outdated. Note: If you think something is missing don't hesitate and drop a comment. **Articles:** [Debugging Articles on MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vstchDebugging.asp) [Debugging in Visual Basic .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtch_DebuggingVBNET.asp) [Ten Steps to Successful Debugging](http://www.developer.com/net/asp/print.php/10917_2176931_3)(in ASP.NET) [How to debug script in Visual Studio .NET](http://gotdotnet.com/team/csharp/learn/whitepapers/How%20to%20debug%20script%20in%20Visual%20Studio%20.Net.doc) [Instrumenting your .Net Application](http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/05/12/instrumenting.html)(Entrprise Application Framework) [EIF Vs. Log4Net](http://blogs.eraserver.net/blogs/pcauldweblog/default.aspx?erablogID=8092&eraCatID=8344&eraPostID=13345) [Debugging in Visual Studio .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vberrDebuggingWindowsFormsControlsCreatedWithVisualBasicNETOrVisualCNET.asp) [Improve Your Understanding of .NET Internals by Building a Debugger for Managed Code](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/11/CLRDebugging/default.aspx) [NET CLR Profiling Services: Track Your Managed Components to Boost Application Performance](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/NetProf/default.aspx) [Solving VS.Net Debugger Problems](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/Story/3695.aspx) [Hardcore Debugging using SOS(Son Of Strike)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/Bugslayer/default.aspx) [Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/DBGrm.asp) [Cutting Edge - MyTracer Monitors and Traces ASP.NET Apps](http://www.wintellect.com/resources/redirect.asp?url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/04/CuttingEdge/default.aspx) [Assertions and Tracing in .NET](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/02/Bugslayer/default.aspx) Wintellect: [Articles by John Robbins(BugSlayer)](http://www.wintellect.com/resources/articles.aspx?authorID=2) **Tools**: \- [Process Explorer](http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml) from GotDotNet \-  [_Developer Playground_](http://www.blunck.info/dp.html "http://www.blunck.info/dp.html") \- [Compute](http://www.iunittest.co.uk/) (Component Tester) \- [StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer](http://www.strikeiron.com/htmls/products.html) \- [ListDLLS](http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/listdlls.shtml) (subset of Process Explorer) \- [.Net Memory Profiler](http://www.scitech.se/memprofiler/) \- [TraceMonitor](http://www.szurgot.net/Src/TraceMonitor.zip)([HomePage](http://www.szurgot.net/projects/)) \- [Assembly Binding Log Viewer](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrffusionlogviewerfuslogvwexe.asp) - part of .NET Framework SDK (helps identify failure's when trying to load unavailable assemblies) \- [MDAC Component Checker](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F0A8DF6-4A21-4B43-BF53-14332EF092C9&displaylang=en) \- Another from Compuware: [BoundsChecker](http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/bounds.htm) for debugging betweeen managed and unmanaged code (not free!) \-  [Microsoft Debugging Tools](http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/gomscom.asp?TARGET=/whdc/ddk/debugging/default.mspx) \- [Microsoft Symbol Server](http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/symbols.mspx) \- [CLR Spy](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=c7b955c7-231a-406c-9fa5-ad09ef3bb37f)  (Interop) \- [.Net Remote Tracing Server](http://www.devcity.net/smourier/trace_server.htm) \- [Anakrino (.Net Decompiler)](http://www.saurik.com/net/exemplar/) \- [Reflector](http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) (Decompiler) **Books:** [Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735615365/qid%3D1053952911/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/iserializable-20) [Comprehensive VB.NET Debugging](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590503/iserializable-20) [Debugging Strategies For .NET Developers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590590597/qid=1054492701/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/iserializable-20)(Free chapter [PDF](http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/131/1590590597-927.pdf), [link](http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=131&sID=927)) [Sharpening Your C# Unit Testing and Debugging Skills](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000083XMJ/qid%3D1054492777/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/iserializable-20)(PDF download)  **Posts** [Debugging Assembly Loading Failures](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/suzcook/PermaLink.aspx/f9f7be1e-ef53-453c-af11-1ad81536edeb) [Howto: Remote Debugging](http://weblogs.asp.net/yosit/posts/9024.aspx) ## More in Other [All posts in Other](https://osherove.com/blog/category/other) - Sep 9, 2003 ### [My favorites in OPML](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/9/my-favorites-in-opml.html) - Jun 11, 2003 ### [Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/announcing-net-desktops-contest.html) - May 9, 2003 ### [My Bookshelf](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/my-bookshelf.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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