C# trigger, Surround SCM & werfault.exe

Question

We are in the process of setting up surround scm as our source control program. We created a trigger which will run when changing the state of a file/repository. When we run it on many files the server gets several werfault.exe processes in the process list. I realize its windows error reporting, however, there is no popup. I'm trying to determine the cause of the error... is there a specific log I can check, or a debugging technique I can use? I don't believe it will be possible to debug directly on the server it runs on.

Thanks

Answer 1

WER faults end up in the Event Log, so that might give you a tiny clue, though it's usually not enough info to tell what went wrong. Maybe you want to add more logging to your trigger application, or have it run userdump.exe when it's about to crash (see AppDomain.UnhandledException event) to a specific folder - that way you can open up the crash dumps later to figure out what went pear-shaped.

Answer 2

What was happening was that we set a trigger on certain events and the trigger calls the handling exe simultaneously, which was swamping the server. We're now using an alternate solution with a windows service so we can control the max amount of simultaneous trigger executions.