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Threading problems
garethhayter
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A few users have reported my app semi-hanging while performing a certain operation. What I mean by semi-hanging is that the app remains responsive to UI interaction, but an operation on another thread never seems to return.
This indicates a threading issue and it is extremely difficult to reproduce at will.
What would be great would be to allow the user (or my app internally) to grab a stacktrace of all threads or something that will allow me to narrow down where the problem is occurring - on which thread, and what is blocking.
I know that threading issues are notorious, but can you suggest any way for me to troubleshoot this. I'd love to put a big button for users experiencing this problem to press, which will send this useful info to me.
I know this is a very broad question, and not actually related to SmartAssembly, but I'd appreciate any pointers ;-)
Thanks,
Gareth.
This indicates a threading issue and it is extremely difficult to reproduce at will.
What would be great would be to allow the user (or my app internally) to grab a stacktrace of all threads or something that will allow me to narrow down where the problem is occurring - on which thread, and what is blocking.
I know that threading issues are notorious, but can you suggest any way for me to troubleshoot this. I'd love to put a big button for users experiencing this problem to press, which will send this useful info to me.
I know this is a very broad question, and not actually related to SmartAssembly, but I'd appreciate any pointers ;-)
Thanks,
Gareth.
Gareth Hayter
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The Managed Stack Explorer sounds perfect, but doesn't work with .Net 4.0.
So, still no solution. All I really need is to get the stack-traces of all running threads.
You are welcome to use our internal support tool, Red Flag, to dump the stacks. It works in a similar way to MSE, except it doesn't automatically dump the stacks -- you have to do it from the "Actions" menu. But I have got .NET v4 support in it.
That's very kind of you. Thank-you very much. I'll give it a go and see what I can uncover.