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• Using dotPeek to figure out why IIS crashed

  15 Mar, 2017

  Here’s a story on how I once used dotPeek to provide debugger symbols and (decompiled) source code for a crashed application for which we had nothing but the application assemblies available. Namespaces have been altered to protect the innocent. Nothing better than a good cup of coffee in the morning! Opening up the issue tracker, “the folks from IT” logged an issue about an application server crashing over night. They automatically captured a crash dump of the IIS worker process and attached it to the issue - this should help in diagnosing the root cause of that crash. One more coffee refill, and then let’s dive in!