Hi, we're attempting to update our application in order to submit it for Vista certification. Part of the requirements are to handle only known exceptions and have Windows Error Reporting deal with all unhandled exceptions. We have a global exception handler in our application (subscribed to the Application.ThreadException event) and ...
An application is hanging occasionally, and I would like to see the dump at the time to figure it out. I had written an application that the user can run to automatically create a dump that I can look at. However I can't seem to get the users to remember to run it when it hangs, no matter what I try. They always end up closing the progra...
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 unhandl...
Is there a .Net API for me to integrate Windows Error Reporting into my application? I'm mostly interested in initiating error reports even for non-catastrophic errors occurring in my application and all I could find is the WIN32 API. ...
What could be the possible causes of exception in calling CoUninitialize(). Our product is using COM and some of WER crash reports are pointing to CoUnInitialize(). WER systems name it as Special Exception. Any pointers? ...
A .Net 4.0 app keeps crashing for a user, but just for him, I could not reproduce the bug. He attached the WERInternalMetadata.xml file generated by the Windows Crash Reporter. By opening it I found out that it's a System.IO.FileNotFoundException that crashes the software, however, there are no functions called in that function that woul...
I have an unhandled exception handler. It shows a nice GUI and allows users to send an error report. Users can even leave their name and phone number and things, and our support department calls them back. Works well, looks good, makes customers less angry. In theory, anyway. The problem is that my application uses background threads, a...
I can find a few examples of accessing WER data through a SOAP API such as this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wer/archive/2010/05/14/winqual-web-services-with-windows-powershell.aspx Is the API they're calling documented anywhere? ...