Is there any CLR classes correspondent to MiniDump API (MiniDumpWriteDump)
which creates .DMP file on crash state?

Please reply. Thanks in advance.



Hyun-jik Bae

I spent quite a bit of time trying to add this feature into our product
offering. I went through a number of options, but never found anything that
worked in all cases. By all cases I mean:

- Works on x86, x64, IA64
- 2nd Chance Exceptions always trigger a dump (could be settable via a
config file)
- Didn't use 3rd party DLL's - mostly due to unavailability of x64 and IA64
and the additional complexity this adds into our build process.
- I would also like a nice little app I could run that would search for the
process and trigger a dump. This would be usefull in a situtation where the
server is hung or performing very poorly.

I talked about my attempts to get this to work in my Blog - unfortuantly I
never got the issue resultions I was hoping for.

http://test.coversant.net/dotnetnuke/Default.aspx?tabid=88&EntryID=3

I would love to hear from someone who can get this to work. It always seemed
to me that it should be a config file option build into .Net. It would be
especially if this was integrated into Windows Error Reporting
(http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/maintain/StartWER.mspx).


As an aside, if all you need is x86, you can see this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/browse_frm/thread/fd6630f06b695d79/6b2bfdaa4d09f795?tvc=1&q=crashdump+author%3Acmullins%40yahoo.com&hl=en#6b2bfdaa4d09f795

I seem to remember this worked, but did require a few hoops to be jumped
through.

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