I recently got a question about if it is possible to generate full user mode dumps automatically every time the process crashes (without having debug diag or adplus installed and monitoring your system).
This would be useful for example if you are setting up a site, and you want to make sure you get dumps if it ever crashes so that you don’t have to repro the issue at that point, just to get data.
It turns out that starting with Windows Server 2008 and Vista + SP1, Windows Error Reporting (WER) will let you do just that. It even worked on my Win 7 machine. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181(VS.85).aspx
The documentation here says that “Applications that do their own custom crash reporting, including .NET applications, are not supported by this feature”. It’s a bit hard to tell what this actually means but I think this is added here due to ambiguity about what constitutes a crash.
For example if you have an exception in an ASP.NET application that is handled by the ASP.NET error handler (i.e. showing you the yellow ASP.NET error page) that is not a “crash” since ASP.NET handles the error, and the process just continues. However for example a StackOverflow, or any unhandled .net exceptions on finalizers or non-request threads, that cause the process to “terminate unexpectedly” will be caught by WER and produce a dump if you configure it to do so.
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Getting full user mode dumps automatically when your process crashes
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Sep 10
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Burger King’s New Pizza Burger
Burger King has just released a new food item that will surely have purists (and perhaps normal people) seething in rage: the bastard child of the unholy mating of burger and pizza: The New York Pizza Burger ($12.99) is a 9-and-a-half-inch wide burger made with four Whopper patties topped with pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, marinara sauce, and Tuscan pesto sauce.
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Sep 10
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Twitter Friend Mug
If you love Twitter or you love the people you follow on Twitter, you can buy a coffee mug made with your Twitter friends’ profile pictures on it! What else is neat is that you don’t have to buy one to generate a picture. This one has my contacts on it.
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Despite Sony and Nintendo still claiming plenty of space in the mobile gaming market, there’s a real threat from Apple. No, not by the Cupertino-based company directly (outside of manufacturing the device, of course), but from the video game developers out there who are mad geniuses enough to do things like id Software’s John Carmack has done. Through some kind of incantation of Black Magick, he has squeeezed id’s Rage title onto the iPhone 4, and it’s running at 60fps. A small part of us, perhaps the part that wants to hold on to some kind of rationale for the real world, wants to think that this is some kind of cruel joke, but it isn’t. In fact, Carmack believes that with this showcase, he’s actually shown that original Xbox titles, and PS2 titles for that matter, have been blown out of the water.
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id Shows Off Rage on an iPhone 4, Running Strong at 60fps
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Sep 10
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Cylon Moose guards a restaurant
The Blue Moose Tavern on Rt 9, a bit south of Lake George. Decent food , but a wonderful piece of metal work in the front of the establishment. Thought I would pass the pics along
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Cylon Moose guards a restaurant
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