winqual

WinQual: Why would WER not accept code-signing certificates?

In 2005 i tried to establish a WinQual account with Microsoft, so i could pick up our (if any) crash dump files submitted automatically through Windows Error Reporting (WER). i was not allowed to have my crash dumps, because i don't have a Verisign certificate. Instead i have a cheaper one, generated by a Verisign subsidiary: Thawte. ...

How does Microsoft generate the Event ID for winqual events?

I am curious about the IDs that are used to identify items in winqual. I assume it is some sort of hash. Is this published? Hash of the module name, its version and an offset? That seems appropriate but the size is too small to cover the possibilities unless some truncation/lossy algorithm is used. This seems to be generated with th...

Winqual for Mac OSX

Hello, is there a way to see applications crashes of our mac-application like we can using error reports using Microsoft's WinQual for windows applications? Thank you! Regards Uwe ...

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 ...

How can I test Windows Error Reporting?

My company participates in Windows Error Reporting via Winqual. We'd like to add some additional data to our crash reports, using WERRegisterMemoryBlock. Obviously we'd like to make sure this is working before we ship our next version. How can we test it? Is there a way to locally preview precisely what is going to be sent? Does thi...

Cheap Code signing to be "Windows 7 compatible"

Hi all, I am currently looking for "Windows 7 compatible" certification, and to get it, you need to implement code signing. Now I look for a cheap certificate, and I found in this thread some cheap alternatives to Verisign certificates. Somewhere one the net I found comments that Microsoft only accepts Verisign certificates. Is this t...

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? ...