Open Kernel Crash Dumps in Visual Studio 11

A dream is coming true. A dream where all the debugging you’ll ever do on your developer box is going to be in a single tool – Visual Studio.

In a later post, I will discuss device driver development in Visual Studio 11, which is another dream come true. For now, let’s take a look at how Visual Studio can open kernel crash dumps and perform crash analysis with all the comfy tool windows and UI that we know and love.

To perform kernel crash analysis in Visual Studio 11, you will need to install the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) on top of Visual Studio. Go on, I’ll wait here.

First things first – you go to File | Open Crash Dump, and you’re good to go:

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