Re: Recommend a debugger

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How do I examine a memory address in Visual C++ 6.0? I've got the hex address I want to look at, but I've never been able to figure out how to get the value at that address.

When I say the app is crashing, actually it's catching the crash, displaying me a nice (though not happy) message: "Error Number: 0x80040707 Description: DLL function call crashed: SPHlpr.RemoveUnConnectedDevice. Setup will now terminate," which
it nicely does after cleaning up all traces of itself. I want to find out what this Unconnected Device is it's trying to remove.

(It was quite a chore digging just to get this error message. Originally it was just saying " Setup has encountered a problem and will now terminate")

This part of the setup program appears not to be using Microsoft Windows Installer, but is using InstallShield 11.0 in some other manner.

It installs fine on some computers but not others.

I think I'll give it a try debugging with Visual Studio C++ 6.0

Susan Rice wrote:
I have only the executables, a .exe file and a .dll file. The program
(.exe) eventually makes a call to a very short routine in the .dll file,
and bombs. I looked at the .dll routine being called with PE Explorer
(http://www.heaventools.com/) and the routine being called is only about
a page long.

Somehow I got to get in there with a debugger to see why it's going
wrong. I have "Debugging Tools for Windows" which has WinDbg.exe,
and "logger.exe" looked promising, but I can't figure out how to
use them.

So is there any decent documentation on how to use WinDbg, or is
there a third party debugger anyone would recommend?
.

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