Author Archives: chuanose

Inspecting a DialogBox’s message text

Today I had a problem where a cmd.exe process spawned by a windows service was hanging. To investigate this I attached to the cmd.exe process with windbg. 0:005> ~1 kb ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child WARNING: Stack unwind information not … Continue reading

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WinDbg breakpoint on allocation size

Today I was looking at a memory leak suspected to be originating from some COM dlls written by my team. I hooked up PerfMon to the Excel session and found out that the Private Bytes of the Excel session increases … Continue reading

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