configuring adplus for capturing crash hang dump

Configuring ADPlus for Capturing crash/hang

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Installing ADPlus

• ADPlus is part of the Microsoft® Debugging Tools for Windows® package. You can download the most recent package at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx• Both a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version of Debugging Tools for

Windows is available, be sure to download the version that is appropriate for your operating system.

Running ADPlus to capture the crash dump• Open Command prompt• Go to directory where Microsoft® Debugging Tools are installed• Run following commands

>gflags /p /enable YourProcess.exe>adplus.exe -crash -pmn YourProcess.exe -o C:\AdPlusDumps

* C:\AdPlusDumps should be valid path, on crash, dump files will be created here only. This command keep monitoring YourProcess.exe and created dump file when crash occurs

Running ADPlus to capture the hang dump• Open Command prompt• Go to directory where Microsoft® Debugging Tools are installed• Run following commands

>gflags /p /enable YourProcess.exe>adplus.exe -hang -pn YourProcess.exe -o C:\AdPlusDumps

* C:\AdPlusDumps should be valid path, hang dump files will be created here only.