How to view crash dump?

Hi,
My new WM 2005 Smartphone emulator (dw.exe to be precise)
just generated a cute looking crash dump.
The problem is that it only displays the crash dump
within the tiny emulator window and does not allow
me to save it or view it on the desktop PC.
The dump is very long (more than 100K)
and there is no way to analyze it on the Smartphone screen.

Please, tell me how can I view the dump on desktop PC.

Thank you
John

riki
Thu May 26 18:15:14 CDT 2005

jhnlmn@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> My new WM 2005 Smartphone emulator (dw.exe to be precise)
> just generated a cute looking crash dump.
> The problem is that it only displays the crash dump
> within the tiny emulator window and does not allow
> me to save it or view it on the desktop PC.
> The dump is very long (more than 100K)
> and there is no way to analyze it on the Smartphone screen.
>
> Please, tell me how can I view the dump on desktop PC.

a crash dump? i'm not familiar with this, what is the first few lines of
the message? is this a .net app? is it the app that crashed, or the OS,
or the whole emulator?

riki


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jhnlmn
Mon Jun 06 19:49:35 CDT 2005

> a crash dump? i'm not familiar with this, what is the first few lines of

WM 2005 includes Dr. Watson program,
which collects information about a crash
and offers to sent it to MS (like in WinXP).

The screen says "We're sorry" "A problem occurred ..."
"Send", "Don't Send"

It collects and prints plenty of data - crash address,
loaded programs, threads, call stacks, etc.,
but it does not allow to save or print it.

It also saves the crash dump in a private file under
\Windows\System\DumpFiles
but the file is in binary format.

So, my question to MS is how we are supposed
to view these crash dumps - viewing them
in the tiny Smartphone screen is such a pain!

Scott
Wed Jun 15 17:25:35 CDT 2005

The process of collecting Windows Error Reporting reports on the device is
the same as on the desktop.
You can check out https://winqual.microsoft.com to look into getting the
error reports from your own program.

--
Scott Yost
Software Development Engineer/Test
Microsoft Corp.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

<jhnlmn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1117069360.696282.136060@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> My new WM 2005 Smartphone emulator (dw.exe to be precise)
> just generated a cute looking crash dump.
> The problem is that it only displays the crash dump
> within the tiny emulator window and does not allow
> me to save it or view it on the desktop PC.
> The dump is very long (more than 100K)
> and there is no way to analyze it on the Smartphone screen.
>
> Please, tell me how can I view the dump on desktop PC.
>
> Thank you
> John
>

jhnlmn
Tue Jun 28 18:28:50 CDT 2005

Thank you for the response.

I studied https://winqual.microsoft.com site
(at least those links, which are not broken)
but didn't find anything, which may be applicable to Pocket PC
or Smartphone. Basically, this site says that developers should
establish accounts with Microsoft to retrieve error reports,
which were generated by their applications and sent to MS.

But PPC/SmPh during development simply
cannot send any reports to MS because there is no
connectivity and because I don't want to send every single
crash to MS (there are too many of them).

All I need to get is a copy of the same error report information,
which is already displayed on the phone by Dr/ Watson.

Thank you
John