USING ADPLUS SCRIPT TO CAPTURE MEMORY DUMP ON STACKOVERFLOW AND NullReferenceException

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It took me some time to figure out how to get appropriate dump on 64 bits boxes using adplus tool. Thought to share out it you:

1) You can use following CFG SCRIPT for capturing dumps StackOverFlow exception

<ADPlus>
<!-- Add log entry, log faulting thread stack and dump full on first chance StackOverflow -->
<Exceptions>
<Config>
<!-- Use sov for stack overflow exception -->
<Code> sov </Code>
<Actions1> Log;Stack;FullDump </Actions1>
<!-- Depending on what you intend - either stop the debugger (Q or QQ) or continue unhandled (GN) -->
<ReturnAction1> GN </ReturnAction1>
< Config>
</Exceptions>
</ADPlus>

Save that as ADP_w3wp_Crash.cfg in location(Default is c:\Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows)

Run it as :
cscript adplus.vbs –crash -p <ProcessID> -o c:\dumps -c ADP_w3wp_Crash.cfg

2) Use the following cfg file for capturing dump on NullReferenceException

<ADPlus>
<!-- Add log entry, log faulting thread stack and dump full on first chance StackOverflow -->
<Exceptions>
<Config>
<!-- Use av for NullReferencException-->
       <Code> av </Code>
<Actions1> Log;Stack;FullDump </Actions1>
<!-- Depending on what you intend - either stop the debugger (Q or QQ) or continue unhandled (GN) -->
<ReturnAction1> QD </ReturnAction1>
< Config>
</Exceptions>
</ADPlus>

Save that as ADP_w3wp_Crash.cfg in location(Default is c:\Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows)

Run it as :
cscript adplus.vbs –crash -p <ProcessID> -o c:\dumps -c ADP_w3wp_Crash.cfg

 

Happy debugging