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Post-Mortem Debugging Your Application with Minidumps and Visual Studio .NET
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This article describes how minidumps work, how to make your application create them when it crashes, and how to read them back with Visual Studio .NET.
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I'm a developer at Microsoft on Visual Studio. I am responsible for the native code debugger, the SQL debugger, plus much of the debugger's infrastructure. I've been a debugger developer at MS for six years, plus for other people many years before. Anyone used the 68k versions of HiSoft Devpac in the early 80s? That was me.
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