Using DebugDiag to capture a dump on First Chance Exception

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Kaushal Kumar Panday

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9 May 2012 12:35 AM

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Capturing memory dumps is a most common ask while troubleshooting
performance related issues with web applications. We generally use
DebugDiag to do so. Not many are familiar with the tool and hence find it
difficult to use it to capture the data.
This time Ill discuss how to use DebugDiag to generate memory dumps on
First Chance Exceptions. Please go through the following blog if you want to
know what a first chance exception is:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidklinems/archive/2005/07/12/438061.aspx
Ill be using DebugDiag v1.2, below is the download link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26798
Download and install the tool corresponding to the bitness of the server and
not the process i.e., for 32 bit machines download x86 and for 64 bit
download x64.
The default installation folder is C:\Program Files\DebugDiag