| Robert William Vesterman 2005-08-29, 7:01 pm |
| A program written in VB6 recently crashed, and I was given a
"minidump" file.
How do I examine it? Its extension (.dmp) is associated, on my
computer, with Visual Studio .NET, but opening it with that just shows
the name of the file in the Solution Explorer, with nothing open in a
main window.
Right-clicking on the filename in Solution Explorer brings up an
unhelpful context menu: "Set as Startup Project" (it's the only
project in the solution anyway), "Debug" (which tells me that VS is
unable to start debugging because "the specified file is in an
unrecognized or unsupported binary format"), and "Properties" (which
shows nothing useful - full pathname of the file and junk like that).
Opening it up in a hex editor instead of VS doesn't reveal anything
clearly or easily, as it is binary. It says "PAGEDUMP" at the
beginning, and fairly soon after that is a bunch of "PAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE"
going on for a while, but then it's just raw binary data most of the
rest of the way through.
Searching the help files for "minidump" reveals incredibly useful
information such as "To open a minidump file, select Project, Open,
click on the file, and click OK".
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bob Vesterman.
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