How to get crash dump on Handled Exception?

Question

Hi all,

My dll is used by a module which dirtily catch all exceptions and just log it in to a file.

My issue is that there is an access violation in a customer site which is reproducible only on its computer and I want get able this customer to generate a dump file for this issue.

I tried to generate an AV in my dll and generate a dump file using adplus but no dump where created since the AV is catched by the module which use my dll.

So my question is:

Is there a way to generate crash dump file even on handled exception?

Thanks,

Yann

Answer 1

Use ADPlus, you can read more about configuring ADPlus here (Minidumps for Specific Exceptions)

Your config file will look something like this:

<ADPlus>
  <Settings>
    <RunMode>CRASH</RunMode>
    <Option>Quiet</Option>
  </Settings>
  <Exceptions>
    <Config>
      <Code>AllExceptions</Code>
      <Actions1>FullDump</Actions1>
    </Config>
  </Exceptions>
</ADPlus>