Version 1.2 supports a command to dump GC Handles by type. Actually, support for this command was suggested by Ilya Ryzhenkov (ReSharper Product Manager at JetBrains) .
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To Do List is to dump all the handles for a type along with stats with an option to specify the # of handles. For example, if there are 100 strong gchandles, you may want to print just 10 of them or so
GCHandlesByType(gcht)
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Get GC Handles Stat by Type
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!GCHandlesByType provides statistics about GCHandles by type.
Supported Types are
1. Pinned(p)
2. AsyncPinned(ap)
3. Strong(s)
4. WeakLong(wl)
5. WeakShort(ws)
6. RefCount(r)
Example Syntax
!gcht [-perdomain] -t <type>
-perdomain option, will display the stat broken down by AppDomain.
type specified is not case sensitive, for example command syntax to print the
stat for Strong handle type is
0:003> !gcht -t strong
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0:003> !gcht -t s
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0:003> !gcht -t Strong
Strong GC Handle Statistics:
Strong Handles: 15
Statistics:
MT Count TotalSize Class Name
793040bc 1 16 System.Object[]
79330fb8 1 28 System.SharedStatics
79331e38 2 48 System.Reflection.Assembly
79330ec0 1 56 System.Threading.Thread
79330c30 1 72 System.ExecutionEngineException
79330ba0 1 72 System.StackOverflowException
79330b10 1 72 System.OutOfMemoryException
793310cc 1 100 System.AppDomain
793325b0 4 144 System.Security.PermissionSet
79330cc0 2 144 System.Threading.ThreadAbortException
Total 15 objects
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. I will continue to use this command in post mortem debugging and at customer sites to fix any issue I encounter.