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ADPlus is a tool from Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) that can troubleshoot any process or application that stops responding (hangs) or fails (crashes).

ADPlus is a tool from Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) that can troubleshoot any process or application that stops responding (hangs) or fails (crashes).

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What is the right way to collect dumps through adplus?

I want to collect the hang dumps using adplus. Do I have to run the process with adplus command right from the start or do I have to start it once the application is hung? If it has to be done right from the start, is there way to reduce the size of…
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adplus - doesn't create dump file, process seems locked up

I'm trying to run: adplus -Crash -o C:\AdPlusDumps -pn .exe -lcqd (I've also tried without the -lcqd) My program throws an exception (normally would crash) Instead it seems to hang and I can't kill it. This also happened when I tried using…
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Should I keep adplus running?

I know that if I'm suffering from the w3wp.exe process crashing, then I could run adplus to capture a dump just before the crash... But if I'm not expecting any failures or crashes, should I still leave adplus running in crash mode just in case, on…
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How to use ADPLUS to _ONLY_ get MiniDumpOnSecond

For a production Win2003 web server, I'd like to be able to allways log minidumps whenever the w3wp.exe processes crash...I've read the documentation for ADPLUS, and have xcopy-deployed it to the production web server, and have started adplus.exe…
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How to understand corrupted infix pattern for freed block

We have PageHeap enabled and are running adplus on our system and recently have had a couple of "corrupted infix pattern for freed block" failures. Can someone shed some light on what this means, what it might look like in the code and suggest steps…
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Get Log From Production Environment

We Have A C# Application That Runs On Many Client Machines And We Have Very Lines Of Code Like This: try{exceptionalMethod();}//all type of exceptions may be throw here (system.exception,our business exceptions…
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How to inspect dumps with WinDBG that are out of Process Context, and get correct callstack

I have an crash issue with one of our customers, and I managed to acquire the logs with adplus -pmn utility, running in monitor mode so that it monitors the process during the crash. Once I inspected the dump, it shows me the following: WARNING:…
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Can unmanaged first chance exception cause a crash/restart?

Follow-up questions: "When investigating a crash, should I only investigate second chance exceptions? What are the cases when I also need to investigate a first chance exception dump?" My questions are a bit broad but I'm curious to what's really…
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Adplus.exe EventLog action for Exceptions not working

I'm trying to tweak a configuration file for Adplus.exe and I've encountered an Action EventLog which is, by default, turned on for second chance exceptions. However, I compared the logs with and without EventLog but it seems the effects are just…
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Can I detach an existing cdb.exe?

Scenario: Our program launches adplus at startup to monitor for crashes. So there is a cdb.exe process running. At some point we want to detach cdb.exe but leave the program running. Is there any way to do this? There is no UI for the cdb…
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Adplus stop debugging process

I have a stupid question - how can I stop debugging? I run adplus -crash -0 path -pid number -mss symbols .. Then I got message that it was attached to the process. I saw logs and mini dumbs in the folder, but I want to stop it. What should I do? I…
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Using AdPlus with ASP.NET app need Process ID

I want to use AdPlus to diagnose out of memory errors. To run the "hang" memory dump, I need to provide the process ID of my app. What would that be and how do I go about finding that?
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ADPlus 'some selected processes are not running', except they are. What am I doing wrong?

Trying to run ADPlus on a WindowsServiceHost.exe that is currently running on a production Windows 2003 server, however, when I try to run the AD, it tells me the process isn't running. Why? My command: %filepath%\ADPlus -hang -pn…
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Debug Dump of a C# App

I generated the hang dump of a c# app with ADPlus. When I tried to debug it with VS2008, it shows the following error message No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed. I have set the the symbol path of the…
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