In order to successfully and effectively analyze a dump file it is very important to ensure your environment is configured correctly. The first step is to ensure symbol paths are setup. This is extremely important to have a successful analysis session...

A user mode memory dump is a file typically with a DMP extension that contains a portion of virtual memory and CPU registers. Two important items captured by the memory dump include the call stack for each thread and the exception record. This information...

Throughout my career in software development I have come across issues that are tough to capture or only seem to occur in production. Each time I encountered these situations I would say to myself, there has to be something better. Post Mortem debugging...

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