Using windbg from Visual Studio

Question

Is it possible to use windbg commands like !locks and .loadby sos mscorwks from the Visual Studio command window (in a debug session)? I've noticed I can use eg k to print a stack trace, so I was wondering if there is some way to get access to the other commands.

Answer 1

Yes you can do this.

1. Attach Visual studio 2008 to your process for debugging.
2. Break at some code.
3. Go to immediate window
4. type !load sos
5. Now you are free to use any of the windbg commands like !EEHeap,!DumpHeap

There are some conditions. You need to enable unmanaged code debugging in your project properties. Normally in 64 bit version studio doesn't support this.

Have fun.