If you are an application developer on Windows Media Center you've probably experienced some pain with our Details view of the stack trace, mostly because you can't copy + paste nor see the entire stack traces if it is over a certain length. Starting in Windows 7 you can now launch Event Viewer and navigate to the Applications and Services Logs > Media Center node to see these stack traces. For example, the screenshot below is what you would see if you ran the MarkupDebugging.mcml sample within Windows Media Center and pressed the button labeled 'Crash The Application'. Note this is independent of the EnableErrorDetails registry key enabling the 'Details' button on the dialog end users see when an application crashes -- this event will always be written. This log file is one of those gathered with the Media Center Diagnostic Tools I posted about here making it really helpful to communicate your applications crashes to us during the beta.



Categories: Tools | Windows Media Center | Debugging | Comments [0] | # | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:44:23 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)   
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