The idea is that a running application, as part of its error handling could create a dump, preserving interesting information.
Sometimes a stack trace just isn't enough.
I used F# just for funsies.
let something = System.Console.WriteLine("Hello") let thisProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program Files\SysInternals\procdump.exe", "ConsoleApplication1 dump.dmp") thisProcess.WaitForExit() System.Console.WriteLine(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory) System.Console.ReadLine()
Procdump is a sysinternals tool, and more suited to this than anything like WinDBG or ADPlus.