minidump_generation

#define UNICODE
#include <windows.h>
#include <dbghelp.h>
#include <shellapi.h>
#include <shlobj.h>
#include <Strsafe.h>

int GenerateDump(EXCEPTION_POINTERS* pExceptionPointers)
{
	BOOL bMiniDumpSuccessful;
	WCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH]; 
	WCHAR szFileName[MAX_PATH]; 
	WCHAR* szAppName = L"AppName";
	WCHAR* szVersion = L"v1.0";
	DWORD dwBufferSize = MAX_PATH;
	HANDLE hDumpFile;
	SYSTEMTIME stLocalTime;
	MINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_INFORMATION ExpParam;

	GetLocalTime( &stLocalTime );
	GetTempPath( dwBufferSize, szPath );

	StringCchPrintf( szFileName, MAX_PATH, L"%s%s", szPath, szAppName );
	CreateDirectory( szFileName, NULL );

	StringCchPrintf( szFileName, MAX_PATH, L"%s%s\\%s-%04d%02d%02d-%02d%02d%02d-%ld-%ld.dmp", 
		szPath, szAppName, szVersion, 
		stLocalTime.wYear, stLocalTime.wMonth, stLocalTime.wDay, 
		stLocalTime.wHour, stLocalTime.wMinute, stLocalTime.wSecond, 
		GetCurrentProcessId(), GetCurrentThreadId());
	hDumpFile = CreateFile(szFileName, GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 
		FILE_SHARE_WRITE|FILE_SHARE_READ, 0, CREATE_ALWAYS, 0, 0);

	ExpParam.ThreadId = GetCurrentThreadId();
	ExpParam.ExceptionPointers = pExceptionPointers;
	ExpParam.ClientPointers = TRUE;

	bMiniDumpSuccessful = MiniDumpWriteDump(GetCurrentProcess(), GetCurrentProcessId(), 
		hDumpFile, MiniDumpWithDataSegs, &ExpParam, NULL, NULL);

	return EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER;
}


void main()
{
	__try
	{
		int *pBadPtr = NULL;
		*pBadPtr = 0;
	}
	__except(GenerateDump(GetExceptionInformation()))
	{
	}
}