Problem So occasionally I run into people trying to analyze a managed mini-dump and they have problems. They run a command like !dumpobj and it fails.
Cause The reason that these commands fail is that the CLR stores all it�s data in virtual memory. That memory is not written when creating a mini-dump.
Solution In order to run SOS commands, many CLR data structures need to be traversed. When creating a mini-dump without full memory, special functions are called at dump creation time to bring those structures into the mini-dump, and allow a minimum set of SOS debugging commands to work. At this time, those commands that can provide full or partial output are:
CLRStack
Threads
Help
PrintException
EEVersion
For a mini-dump created with this minimal set of functionality in mind, you will get an error message when running any other commands. A full memory dump (obtained with ".dump /ma &l ...
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