When ngen is executed on a .NET managed application at installation time, and a crash dump is retrieved from Windows Error Reporting for the app, how can you use it to see a stack trace, variables, etc.?
Here's some background related to the question: We have a .NET app that gets ngened at installation. When it crashes due to an unhandled .NET exception, the crash is bucketted in Windows Error Reporting, and from that I was able to download the minidump.mdmp file from winqual.microsoft.com.
I put minidump.mdmp in a folder containing the .dbg files for the build of the app that crashed, and double-clicked minidump.mdmp to open it in a new instance of VS2008 SP1. My stack trace looks like this:
kernel32.dll!RaiseException() + 0x3d bytes
mscorwks.dll!RaiseTheExceptionInternalOnly() + 0x295 bytes
mscorwks.dll!JIT_Throw() + 0x130 bytes
MyApp.ni.exe!000007feee74c84c()
[Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for MyApp.ni.exe]
0000000070000d5e()
MyApp.ni.exe!000007feee611000()
000000000300bf78()
000000000300bf60()
The Modules window indicates that symbols are loaded for the OS and .NET DLLs, but for the application modules, I get this:
MyApp.exe -> No native symbols in symbol file.
MyApp.ni.exe -> No matching binary found.
MyAppsLibrary.ni.dll -> No matching binary found.