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Article #15Re: How to debug remote software installations
From: josh
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:03
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:03
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:40:19 GMT, Jason Botwick <jbotwick@nc.rr.com> wrote: > What's the best way to diagnose the cause of crashes that occur on software > that you have deployed to a user? When I was writing UNIX applications, we > could always examine the core dump. Is there some analogue under Windows? > Are there some tools that you can use to save the state of an application > when it crashes? > Make sure they use Dr Watson (it's enabled by default on every Windows machine, but it can be disabled, so make sure it's *not* the case.) This thing generates a log and a core dump as well. Also, you can make your own app log stuff, so try that too. Finally, VC comes with a nifty little app, Remote Debugger, that you can use to actually debug their stuff over the net. There's also a great book on Windows debugging whose title I forget but something with "Debugging" in it, I think it's from Wrox, and it's very, very useful.
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