blog: minidumps and windbg

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/22Mar09-debugging-with-minidumps-and-windbg.htm

if you are a programmer and using something other than C++ i would like to hear if something similar to what i describe will work for you, eg for delphi or .NET. I imagine it should, if you can create a MS-compatible PDB file

[BugHunter]

First, source code !!!   i want to see more !!
oh what nice modifications / improvements i could do with that source code  

Had to get that out of the way

My question is: why does xplorer2 crash due to misbehaving shell extension when windows explorer does not ?

This seems to be fixable...

I'd love to help, my reward would be to get a peek at the source code  

[nikos]

the source code to install a crash handler that writes a minidump is cross referenced and linked in the blog article:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.aspx

there are 2 reasons why windows explorer does not crash, first it is overcautious with shell extensions (which explains perhaps the lack of speed), and second you never quit windows explorer (it is running as your desktop) so you don't see these faults on exit like in xplorer2

one solution (like i do) is not to quit xplorer2 ever