Visual Studio.NET 2010 has a new feature that allows you to create nice directed graphs with a markup language called DGML (Directed Graph Markup Language). Visualizing object graphs with DGML Chris Lovett wrote a tool that takes GCRoot output and transforms it to a DGML document so that you can see the roots of an object in a more visual way, and finally Mohamed Mahmoud went one step further and made a debugger extension that does this for you directly. The debugger extension is called VGCRoot and you can get the extension, and some instructions and demos for it here . The VGCRoot extensions If you are looking at a memory dump in windbg and try to figure out why your object is still sticking around, collection after…(read more)
March 3rd, 2010 → 1:57 pm @ Editor
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