Every once in a while you run across an undocumented trick that totally and completely makes your day. A great example of that is the ability to debug MSBuild scripts in Visual Studio. Today I ran across another amazingly useful feature in WinDBG and SOS for .NET 4.0 that will save you countless hours of typing when analyzing minidumps. If you thought using .cmdtree to click your way to SOS happiness was amazing, you're going to love this one. The next time you start a WinDBG debugging session with SOS 4.0, issue the following undocumented command before you run any SOS commands:.prefer_dml 1If you've been using WinDBG for a while, you might have heard of DML (Debugger Mark Up Language). It's a feature of WinDBG where you can get hyperlinks in specific command output, such as LM (Loaded Modules) where you can click on a module to get more information about that module. Read more: JOHN ROBBINS' BLOG
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