Workshop for memory leak investigation

A repository with code for demos/hands-on excercises of memory leak investigation workshop. Here you will find "mystery" apps that contain some sort of memory management related issue.

Getting started

1. Install Visual Studio 2019 Community or any IDE capable of compiling and running .Net 5.0 (If you don't have any installed, get Visual Studio for free from here
2. Ensure .Net 5.0 SDK is installed. Get it from here
3. Install WinDbg Preview from Windows Store.
4. WinDbg requires a bit of configuring. Take a look at the following or use this blog post as a guide
   Set up symbol resolution string. The format of the symbol string is cache[local cache folder 1][local cache folder 2];srv[local cache folder]*[symbol server path]*
   Note 1: This will enable WinDbg to resolve symbols so proper stack traces can be displayed.
   Note 2: !sym noisy on command will enable debug output to see what kind of symbols WinDbg looks for and why the resolution is missing.
5. Download Process Explorer from here. It will be useful for taking dumps of processes.
6. Download and install Windows 10 SDK (you can download it from here). Make sure to tick Debugging Tools for Windows when you install