Minidumps for WP App crashes

[jkidd01]

Now, you guys may already know this, but I just discovered it.

When you get the excel file with your stack trace data from the WP Dev website to inspect all the crashes in your app, all the way over in column 'i' is a link to download a cab file with a minidump of the crash!

I still need to figure out how to use the minidump to troubleshoot the crashes, but once I figure it out I'm sure it'll be easier than trying to decipher what exactly caused the crash from the stack trace.

 

[BIGPADDY]

Thanks for the information it will be very useful!

 

[hacer619]

Didn't even notice that, life is so much easier now. Thanks for the info
Now I don't even look at the excel info, just download the cabs

 

[SwizzleSoftware]

Also just came across this...but I'm struggling to get any useful information from them. Tried following some articles, but no help?

 

[holymoo]

It's really difficult sifting through those files. Your much better using a 3rd party api like https://mint.splunk.com/ .

It's what I use on my apps and I will give me tons of information about troubleshooting bugs. The api was also really easy to integrate with my existing logger.

 

[kankariaco]

Hi,
Has anyone decoded how to use these minidumps yet? I researched it a while back, and found some documentation, but still could not make it work.
Here are some of those links if someone wants to try:
Analyzing crash reports - Windows app development
Windows Driver Kit (WDK) and Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) downloads

OR
Try this as an alternative, so you don't have to rely on stack traces:
How to get Exception.StackTrace line numbers on Windows Phone - Lucian's VBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

I hope either Microsoft improves the stack traces, or someone explains how to use it. rly: