How can I create objects based on dump file memory in a WinDbg extension?

Question

I work on a large application, and frequently use WinDbg to diagnose issues based on a DMP file from a customer. I have written a few small extensions for WinDbg that have prov

Answer 1

Interesting idea, but this would have a hope of working only on the simplest of objects. For example, if the object contains pointers or references to other objects (or vtables), those won't copy very well over to a new address space.

However, you might be able to get a 'proxy' object to work that when you call the proxy methods they make the appropriate calls to ReadMemory() to get the information. This sounds to be a fair bit of work, and I'd think it would have to be more or less a custom set of code for each class you wanted to proxy. There's probably a better way to go about this, but that's what came to me off the top of my head.