What are some techniques for troubleshooting very intermittent Access Violation on a Windows Mobile Device?

Question

I have a large Compact Frameworks V2.0 application that in most cases works very well. On certain devices about once a day, a user receives a Native Error 0xC0000005 that i

Answer 1

My native C++ exception handling was not including async exception, and thus was not catching access violation exceptions.

This may/may not be helpful for my problem, but might be helpful for others.

Using the /EHa switch as documented in this link will allow for catching these types of exceptions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5.aspx