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Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:31 PM

Howto: Verifying Symbols before taking a Dump using symchk

Prior to taking a dump on a program, you should be sure that there are matching symbols for the application the dump is being taken on. Large dumps can take many hours to upload to a person for debugging. You can validate symbols against the executable
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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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