Dealing With Exceptions

Knowledgeable blogs on the subject of debugging, crashes, exceptions and dumps - good reading:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2005/11/30/498297.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/10/01/51524.aspx
• http://geekswithblogs.net/dbose/archive/2008/11/08/windbg--crash-dump-.-associated-headches---part-1.aspx

Grabbing the dump file and getting at the data from the dump:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/archive/2006/11/30/grabbing-dmp-files-from-crash-dialogs.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/10/449865.aspx

Very useful links for debugging, including dump file cheat sheet and analysis check list:

• http://windbg.dumpanalysis.org/ (Generally a good site: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/)

Every developer's starting point when looking for debugging tools:

• http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

Page of links for Microsoft debugging tools:

• http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx

WinDbg is the top one:

• http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/debuggers/dbg_x86_6.11.1.404.msi

At time of writing this is labelled "Install 32-bit version 6.11.1.404 [16.9 MB]"

And finally, why you should use try...catch...finally, or even try...finally:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/547791/why-use-finally-in-c