Ok, I was at school today, and reading something in Word on their computers, and as I exited word, all these error messages came up and so on, I closed all of them, until I got to one final one, something along the lines of: This application has been naughty. Click Ok to terminate or Cancel to debug. Being my curious self, I chose to debug, and to my suprise, VC++ opened up (mainly a suprise because I didn''t know that the school computers had it) showing the assembly stuff for part of Word. Can someone who knows a little more about VC++ than me explain this? Say if internet explorer crashed (General Protection Fault say) would you have the chance to debug it? Is it a windows 2000 thing and if I didn''t have VC++ intalled, would it just close the application or what? (sorry if this is basic, VB''s my language of preference =) Although I did make myself a hello world app when I realised that the school had VC++ so I guess I''m just l337 =) Trying is the first step towards failure.

If Vc++ had not been installed on the computer then you would not have been given the option to Debug it. So no its not a feature of Windows 2000 it is a feature of VC++ which integrates itself into the operating system it is running on.

hope this helps

steveo



Edited by - Steveo on November 14, 2000 5:32:05 AM

Yes, you have the chance to debug IE WHEN it crashes if you had VC++ however you would have to do it in assembly unless you had a debug version of IE (doesnt exist outside MS) and the source code to it, SoftIce and IDA Pro are a lot better than the debug program built in VC++ if you want to debug or "enhance" programs you dont have the source code for.