// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
So you got a memory corruption issue with a piece of software. It comes in a unique scenario along the line of having a huge pile of weird code running well most of the time and then, right out of the blue, a corruption takes place followed by unexpected code execution and unstable software state…
An updated version of LogProcessExceptions utility is given an additional option to create minidump .DMP files for debugged process on user request. This is in particular useful in conjunction with flag choices (on the previous page of the wizard). Download links: Partial Visual C++ .NET 2010 source code: Trac, Subversion Binaries: Win32 – LogProcessExceptions.exe, x64…
LogProcessExceptions utility implements a very basic debugger which attaches (see DebugActiveProcess on MSDN) to a running process and monitors its exceptions. Once exception takes place the utility creates a minidump file for the process (see MiniDumpWriteDump on MSDN) so that exception condition could be investigated off-site using debugger. If you throw C++ exceptions in your…
Because Microsoft C++ Runtime library is distributed as a side-by-side assembly, GetModuleHandle and LoadLibrary is no longer available to locate the library within the process. Both API calls would return NULL handle. HMODULE hModule = GetModuleHandle(_T(“msvcr90.dll”)); HMODULE hModule = LoadLibrary(_T(“msvcr90.dll”)); Still, how to locate the modules in order to, for example, be able to check…
ProcessSnapshot is a utility to take a snapshot of process call stacks, and the snapshot taken is written into a human friendly text file. Additionally to this, the utility has been given a capability to create process minidump files, on user request. The minidump files can be used with debugger to analyze the context of…
Another example of a negligence with a cost of incompatibility and enormous amount of support time. Ahead Nero installs a number of DirectShow filters into $(Program Files)\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter directory. One of the files is NeResize.ax and it hosts a Nero Resize filter. Let us take a closer look: CLSID: {30002E0C-C574-481E-A5DE-90AE54A79E10} (note that Nero 8 ships…