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ADPlus is a tool from Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) that can troubleshoot any process or application that stops responding (hangs) or fails (crashes).

ADPlus is a tool from Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) that can troubleshoot any process or application that stops responding (hangs) or fails (crashes).

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Help catching StackOverflowException with WinDbg and ADPlus

Short Version I want an ADPlus script that will do a full memory dump on the first-chance StackOverflowException, before anything is cleaned up, and ignore all other exception types. Log Version After a release of new ASP.NET code, we started…
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type of process dump when its generated from task manager

Starting from Windows Vista, now one can generate a process dump right from task manager. Typically I generate a process dump either by using Adplus or right from Windbg. If I use one of these option, I have to provide some switches with my command…
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First chance vs Second chance exception

When I generate a dump file using ADPlus, I get both First chance and second chance exception but when I use task manager for generating dump file, I only get once dump file. Is it the second chance exception? I am bit confused about this 1st and…
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Windbg: Unable to walk the managed stack

Via Adplus I attached a process (in my iis I ran a website) C:\Program Files (x86)\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)>ADPlus -crash -pn w3wp .exe -o C:\dumps Below is the code to reproduce stackoverflow exception of that website: protected void…
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How to create process mini dump on crash without running AdPlus explicitly on Windows 7?

I have a .NET process that sometimes fails with AccessViolationException in the native code of some 3rd party library. I wish to have full memory mini dump when that happens. I have read this page - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673, the…
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Inconsistent behavior from ADPlus / CDB - No Runnable Debuggees Error in 'g'

I've set up ADPlus / cdb as the default Just-In-Time debugger on my machine. When any process has an unhandled exception or crashes for any other reason, I want ADPlus to generate a crash dump for me. I'm using an ADPlus config file to set the…
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Unable to read crash dump in windbg

I have been getting a stackoverflow exception in my program which may be originating from a thirdparty libary, microsoft.sharepoint.client.runtime.dll. Using adplus to create the crash dump, I'm facing the problem that I'm struggling to get any…
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Help catching AV with WinDbg and ADPlus 7.0

I want to catch Memory Access Violation in SQL Server Compact Edition like this described at http://debuggingblog.com/wp/2009/02/18/memory-access-violation-in-sql-server-compact-editionce/ The suggested config is: …
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My application is hung and windbg dump analysis shows all threads are in suspended/unfrozen state. What does it mean?

My outlook addin application is hung and windbg hang dump analysis shows all threads are in suspended/unfrozen state. The errors in the event viewer and process monitor shows hundreds of registry lookup failures and disk access failures. What does…
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Windbg and Stack Overflow exception - got crash dump but Windbg output meaningless

I am trying to find the source of an intermittent Stack Overflow exception on a live ASP.NET 4.0 site. I have captured some crash dumps using ADPlus (adplus_old.vbs, not the new adplus.exe) using a custom configuration that ignores all other types…
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Where do the exception codes used in ADPlus.config come from?

I've been trying to put together a config file for ADPlus.exe to determine the cause of my ASP.NET application's unexpected restarts. I'm having some trouble understanding the adplus.config file. I have found example config files online, such as…
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How Can I Catch a Mysterious Process Killer?

We had this customer complaining out product was constantly crashing after running fine for 2-5 minutes. It took few days of guessing, but we came to the following conclusion: When the process is terminating without leaving any traces (event…
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_NT_SYMBOL_PATH adplus windbg issue, not able to set name

In command line I have run the following command: C:> set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srvc:\symbolshttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols But when I run the following command in adplus.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)>ADPlus…
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Adplus dump creation failed - access is denied

I'm trying to get a dump to debug some memory issues in ASP.NET processes (Windows 2003 R2 SP2 x64): adplus -hang -o f:\dumps -pn w3wp.exe -quiet There are nine w3wp.exe (all from different websites). Everytime I run adplus as above some of the…
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How to script ADPlus for ease of customer use for diagnosing crashes and hangs

We're a great fan of using ADPlus in the Debugging Tools for Windows for customers who are experiencing crashes or hangs. However, the big problem we have is trying to explain what the customers need to type in order to run it. We would send them…
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