Getting started with dump file analysis

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user181813 picture user181813 · Feb 14, 2011 · Viewed 28.7k times · Source

I am working with a legacy VB6/COM application which sometimes causes Windows 7 to crash. I have now generated a .dmp file of one of these crashes using the ProcDump tool from Sysinternals. However, I have never worked with dump files before. Which resources would you recommend for getting started with dump file analysis?

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Marvin Smit picture Marvin Smit · Feb 14, 2011

Some more links that might be usefull

WinDBG and tools:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/download-windbg

.Net extension for WinDBG:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/tools/sos-dll-sos-debugging-extension

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