Debugging Silverlight applications with windbg and sos.dll

If you have hangs, performance, memory issues, exceptions or crashes in Silverlight applications you can debug them using windbg and sos just like you would if the issues occurred in other .net applications.  The difference is that Silverlight in IE runs a subset of the framework where the main dll is coreclr.dll rather than mscorwks.dll so you can't use the regular 2.0 version of sos.dll that you can find in the framework directory.  Instead you can install the Silverlight Developer Runtime from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/tools.aspx and the sos.dll for silverlight will be located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30523.8 directory. To troubleshoot silverlight applications with windbg and sos...(read more) ...