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Full Dumps: A full dump pretty much gets everything in memory for the application at the time the dump is taken. Because of this, a process taking one gig of memory will likely result in a one gig dump file. ยท A full dump will have this information: Heap

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.

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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