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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:34 PM

Howto: Verifying Symbols after taking a Dump

Once the symbols and dump are received by the person who will be debugging, they can use the commands below to check for the symbols being loaded in a debugger such as Windbg after the symbol path is set. To do this, go into windbg in the debuggers folder
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:26 PM

Howto: Generate a Mini-Dump with Task Manager in Vista

With Vista, you can create a mini-dump by right clicking on the process in Task Manager. However, user-mode process dump information is not available by using this feature. This feature is not available under Windows 2003 or Windows XP.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:25 PM

Howto: Take a dump in Visual Studio

When an application crashes, the user may only have Visual Studio on the box. When the crash occurs, the developer may be prompted to see if they wish to debug the appliction. If they can choose Visual Studio, then they can save the dump to a file which
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:22 PM

Howto: Generating a Hang Dump with adplus

Adplus from the Debugging Tools can be used to get Hang Dumps. Normally, you want to take at least 2 dumps to so the person debugging can get an idea of where the hang is. Installing Adplus and the Debugging SDK: 1) Go to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:20 PM

Howto: Generating a Crash Dump with adplus

ADPlus from the Debugging Tools can be used to get Crash Dumps. ADPlus is a command-line VBScript file which runs a debugger with best-case switches in order to produce a dump file. In a nutshell, the dump file contains the application as it was running
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