Blue screen when using Ping

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This is a known bug in Windows 7, you’ll get a BSOD with bug-check code 0x76, PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES in tcpip.sys when you terminate the process. The most relevant feedback article is here. Also covered in this SO question. No great answers there, the only known workaround is to fallback to a .NET version earlier than 4.0, it uses another winapi function that doesn’t trigger the driver bug.

Avoiding pinging while you debug is certainly the best way to avoid this problem. Your desired approach is not going to work, your program is entirely frozen when it hits a breakpoint, kaboom when you stop debugging.

The simplest way is to just not starting pinging in the first place in the specific case of having a debugger attached. Use the System.Diagnostic.Debugger.IsAttached property to detect this in your code.

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