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WER is designed for third-parties...not Microsoft...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 10:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ghostie
(2 messages posted)
WER (Windows Error Reporting) is actually a very valuable tool for MSDN Universal
subscribers - primarily third-party ISVs:
https://winqual.microsoft.com/info/default.aspx#WER
Basically, when any application crashes, Microsoft can be sent a crash report. Initially
the WER servers actually throw away crash reports until the software vendor goes
in and says they want to receive them. What the vendor receives is a CAB file (compressed
- kind of like ZIP, but different and is Windows-specific) containing a number of
minidump files. A minidump file contains just enough information for the vendor
to see what line of code the program was executing on at the time of the crash/freeze/etc.
They get the stack, the DLLs that were loaded in, and maybe a little extra information.
The files are digitally signed to prevent tampering. So, sending error reports
never hurts and actually helps in a lot of cases.
From what I understand the Office and most other teams ignore the error reports,
but the Visual Studio .NET (2005 - Whidbey) team pays attention to them.
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