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Most of the code uses List<T> for storing items.  The present solutions don’ t have a way to dump List<T> within windbg. Even though sosex has an option to dump the List<T> using !mdt it still doesn’t meet the scripting requirements. For example here is an output using sosex “!mdt -e 029a91c0″

0:000> !mdt -e 029a91c0
029a91c0 (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[Test.Foo, Test]])
Count = 2
[0] 029a9200 (Test.Foo)
[1] 029a9210 (Test.Foo)

I would have preferred to get the contents of the “Foo” object instead of just the address of Foo. So wrote a script to do that.

$$ pointer to the array within the List
r @$t5 = poi(${$arg1}+@$ptrsize)

 .if (@$ptrsize = 8 )
 {
    r @t7 = 20 
 } 
 .else 
 { 
    r @$t7 = 10
 }

 .for (r $t0=0; @$t0 < poi(@$t5+@$ptrsize); r$t0=@$t0+1 )
 {
     .if(@$t0 = 0)
     {
         $$ First occurence of the element in the array would be in the 20 offset for x64 and 10 offset for x86
         r$t1=@$t7
     }
     .else
     {
         $$ the rest of the elements would be in the 8th offset for x64 and 4th offset for x86
         r$t1= @$t7+(@$t0*@$ptrsize)
     }
     $$ Check for null before trying to dump
     .if (poi((@$t5-@$ptrsize)+@$t1) = 0 )
     {
     .continue
     }
     .else
     {
     .printf "%N \n" ,poi((@$t5-@$ptrsize)+@$t1)
     }
 }                                  

This script should work in x86 and x64. To use the above script copy to a file and invoke it like this passing the address of List<T>

$$>a<"d:\Debuggersx86\dumplist.txt" 029a91c0

Here is the output from the above command.

0:000> $$>a<"d:\Debuggersx86\dumplist.txt" 029a91c0
029A9200
029A9210

Now with this script I can use !mdt to get the contents of the “Foo” object.

.foreach ($obj {$$>a<"d:\Debuggersx86\dumplist.txt" 029a91c0}) {!mdt $obj}

0:000> .foreach ($obj {$$>a<"d:\Debuggersx86\dumplist.txt" 029a91c0}) {!mdt $obj}
029a9200 (Test.Foo)
counter:0×1 (System.Int32)
Name:029a917c (System.String: "test")
029a9210 (Test.Foo)
counter:0×2 (System.Int32)
Name:029a9198 (System.String: "test2")

This is one of the scripts that I would use often. Hope it is useful to others also.