Postmortem Debugging of Dump Files

See here (Microsoft) and here (Wikipedia) for the definition of a dump. A lot of tools can create dump file such as

TaskMgr, ProcDump, and Visual Studio itsefl. See "What is a dump and how do I create one".

To debug a dump file in Visual Studio, you can just simply click the File -> Open -> File menu and select the dump file you want to debug.

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