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Obtaining Call Stack from Crash dump of Windows Application using WinDbg

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If you are a developer or a member of a team developing & maintaining desktop applications, you are inevitably going to face application crash issues. More the legacy and large application, the more sophisticatedly you have to handle them. From developer point of view, application crashes can be categorized as: Non-reproducible crash, Always Reproducible crash, Reproducible Crash only on customer machine, Random crash. To be able to find out the reason of crash, the crash log or Stack Trace is your true friend in need. As it happens on some really bad days, you may be facing some crash issue without crash log . The steps below may help you in those times. So read on to know how to get the crash log when Application crashes without any crash log. Prerequisites : WinDbg - The Windows Debugger Download link: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=845298 Link may change over time, so here is the main page link:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dow