Exception Snapshot for Visual Studio

[D2O84]

Would it be possible to save the current state as a Visual Studio debugger snapshot in a file,
Such as having the right version of the project open and opening the debugger snapshot file in VS we would be able to have full Call Stack (and the ability to click any level in that call stack to change context), Local Window, Watch Window, Threads, Tasks, ... as is you had hit a breakpoint while debugging locally, I understand it would be impossible to resume execution, but at least seeing the context at different level of the call stack would help.

This would be great for production, especially if we can generate such file whenever an exception is raised. It would make it easier to identify errors on the caller side.

In addition, it would be great to store them in different folders, or file names with specific prefix based on the stack trace so they are grouped by cases (i.e. the exceptions generate in similar context are together, in the sense that if you fix one of those issues you'll probably fix all the issues in that group)

<configuration>
  <system.diagnostics>
      <exception>
          <add name="..." type="System.Diagnostics.ExceptionSnapshotRecorder" initializeData="../logs/exceptions"/>
      </exception>
  </system.diagnostics>
</configuration>

and

System.Diagnostics.SnapshotRecorder.Record(@$"../logs/event/{DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy_MM_dd_HH_mm_ss").txt");

Thank you

[jnm2]

This is a long-established capability. Create a minidump using Task Manager or programmatically using MiniDumpWriteDump.

Then open the file (possibly on another computer) using Visual Studio: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using-dump-files#BKMK_Open_a_dump_file

You'll get full call stacks and locals etc as though you were paused while debugging.