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Asked: 2026-06-10T15:29:33+00:00

Is there a way to create a crash dump file automatically on application crash

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Is there a way to create a crash dump file automatically on application crash (on Windows OS), same as if I could save with Visual Studio debugger attached? That is, I want to be able to debug my application in Visual Studio with automatically created crash dump files.

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    Update: Debug Diag 2.x is now available. This release has native support for .NET dumps.

    Yes it is possible using DebugDiag 1.2.

    The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in
    troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks
    or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool
    includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information
    Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and
    related Microsoft technologies.

    It even allows you to run crash/hang analysis on the dump and give you a nice report about the callstack and thread that are in sleep state (for hang dumps). It also allows you to take on the fly dumps too. The dumps taken by DebugDiag can be analyzed in DebugDiag, Visual Studio and WinDbg.

    EDIT: The MSDN link to how to use DebugDiag is here.

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