How to Autogenerate Dump File using Windows Error Reporting : Easily Explained with Examples
As Developers we might have faced situations wherein the application crashes and we are tasked to find out the reason for the crash. It can be quite challenging at first to identify the root cause of the crash. It can be anything from reading invalid memory location, or accessing memory which has already been de-allocated. What is a Dump File? Dump File is a file which gets generated by the Debugging engines which contains/embed information related to the state of the application during failure/crash to which the debugger is attached to. Dump files generated from these crashes serve as an important resource to identify the root cause with the help of call stack and associated information contained within the file. Ways of Generating Dump Files It can be generated manually from the Task Manager while the process is running by clicking on Create Dump File option from the context menu of the process as shown below: ...