Tool for analyzing .Net app memory dumps

Question

Can somebody suggest a good free tool for analyzing .Net memory dumps other than Adplus/windbg/sos ?

Answer 1

What is wrong with windbg?

What are the apps you mentioned missing that you looking for?

Answer 2

@keeb - Nothing is wrong with windbg. It gives me all the stuff I need.

I was looking for a more user friendly tool to train some new joinees.

Answer 3

You can load sos and your memory dump into Visual Studio to at least insulate you from the 'interesting' ui that WinDbg presents.

Answer 4

Hava a look at SOS Assist (http://old.thinktecture.com/SOSAssist/default.html), it provides a GUI around SOS.

Answer 5

You can try out DebugDiag 1.1

Answer 6

I fully recommend .Net Memory Profiler. Beside being a great live memory profiler for .Net applications, it can also load memory dumps, and let you traverse the objects in the dump in a very intuitive an easy way.

Opening big dump (> 1 GB) can take a few hours though, but for us it's worth the wait. I don't know if they have trial version, but if they do you should definitely give them a shot.