| | Post-Mortem Debugging Your Application with Minidumps and Visual Studio .NET - The Code Project - Debug tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The actual memory heap of the application is by default not saved in a minidump; it is not required to debug a surprisingly high percentage of crashes. |
 | | This is to be expected; a call stack can only be walked accurately with debug information, so as you add more information, your stack will get more accurate, which will often expose additional frames that were not in the original. |
 | | In addition, the creation of minidumps from a Windows service that has an unhandled exception poses additional challenges, to do with desktop access (for example, if no one is using the console, then you cannot prompt them) and security contexts. |
| www.codeproject.com /debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.asp (3249 words) |