Great Pointers For Analyzing Memory Crash Dumps

This is an older article (2006) but still an excellent resource for anyone who has to do deep troubleshooting and research to determine the cause of a crash in a .NET application. With these tips, and perhaps just a little luck, you can even trace the issue down to the exact line of code that's causing the crash.

"I’ve written quite a few posts on memory issues because that is the type of problem we get most frequently in support, but I thought I’d break it up a little bit with a post on a crash scenario.

This is a problem that I have seen a number of times in cases throughout the years and it also turns out to be a pretty nice sample for showing how to debug a stackoverflow crash in .net."

~Tess Ferrandez

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