How to use the Signatures in an error report?

Question

I just sent out a program for beta testing and a user got back to me with this Error Report:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01:   myprogram.exe (not the actual name of the file)
Problem Signature 02:   1.4.0.0
Problem Signature 03:   4ff759ce
Problem Signature 04:   System.Windows.Forms
Problem Signature 05:   4.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06:   4ee9b94f
Problem Signature 07:   14e0
Problem Signature 08:   23
Problem Signature 09:   System.ObjectDisposedException

I can of course find information on the System.ObjectDisposedException at MSDN. So I probably have some problem where I ask for an object that has been disposed (probably a filestream).

So Signature 09: tells me what kind of Exception it has thrown - but will the other signatures give me any information on what has caused this exception?

To me Problem Signature 06-08 seem to hold interesting data, but I don't know what it means.

It ought to be of rather general interest how to read one of these error reports.

Answer 1

The information on the problem signature is basically memory positions for the faulting dll at an intermediate language level.

This blog post explain each of the available fields. You can inspect the dll by using MSIL Disassembler

Hope this is what you were looking for,

Regards,

EDIT: As an additional note, in order to investigate intermediate level code I found easier to do File->Dump in the MSIL Disassembler. Then search for the method according to the Signature 07 param. e.g. .method /.590./