How to write a sample code that will crash and produce dump file?

Question

I started learned windbg and I found this good post How to use WinDbg to analyze the crash dump for VC++ application?

Now I want to follow the instructions and do it

Answer 1

Most of the times you will find all apps dump in C:\windows\minidumps.

To generate a dump file you could use a simple solution:

1. Open windbg
2. File->Open Executable
3. You run the app that will crash
4. A breakpoint will trigger
5. Now you can use .dump in windbg to create a dmp file

or

1. Run the app and wait to crash
2. Open windbg and attach to process (File->Attach to process)
3. run .dump

This way you will be able to analyze that crash anytime :)