windows-error-reporting

Is there a .Net API for Windows Error Reporting

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. ...

Manually trigger Windows Error Reporting from a Outlook COM Add-In

I am writing a Outlook COM Add In using Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO. If an exception goes unhandled in the add in, I would like it to trigger Windows Error Reporting (WER). Our company has access to WinQual so that we can get reports of WER reports from users that occur in our program. Is there some way to do this? From what I can tel...

Is there any way to do a WER "Request Additional Files" for the windows temp directory?

My company has had numerous crashes reported to windows error reporting due to what looks like an install problem. The logs for our installs are typically in the windows\temp directory. I would like to include the install log file as a "Request Additional Files" entry, however there doesn't seem to be any way to get to a subdirectory o...

How to request additional data with WER?

I'm new to WER (actually, just registered a few days ago). I've managed to establish an account and map my test application to it. However, when I invoke an unhandled exception, I see that no additional files are collected (there is proper report in Solutions center with BucketID <> 8, it is not arrived yet to winqual, but at least it ...

Win32: How to crash?

i'm trying to figure out where Windows Error Reports are saved; i hit Send on some earlier today, but i forgot that i want to "view the details" so i can examine the memory minidumps. But i cannot find where they are stored (and google doesn't know). So i want to write a dummy application that will crash, show the WER dialog, let me cl...

how to force apache to crash?

I want to test something when apache crashes. The thing I want to test involves Windows asking me if it wants to send an error report. Any way to make Apache crash and ask me to send an error report on it? Thanks ...

Robustly killing Windows programs stuck reporting 'problems'

I am looking for a means to kill a Windows exe program that, when being tested from a python script, crashes and presents a dialog to the user; as this program is invoked many times, and may crash repeatedly, this is not suitable. The problem dialog is the standard reporting of a Windows error: "Foo.exe has encountered a problem and ne...

Getting helpful error messages on Windows 7

During Windows XP development, if my application encountered an unhandled exception it would display an error message "X has encountered and error..." and give me the option to launch the debugger. Under Windows 7, all I get is a message that says "X has stopped working, Windows is checking for a solution". I can no longer see any deta...

Is the WER (winqual) web service API documented anywhere

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? ...