How Can I Debug Access Violations When Running My Program Standalone?

Problem Description

My program runs fine in the Visual Studio environment, but when I run it stand alone with the Windows operating system, it produces an access violation. How can I debug this problem?

Solution

Set the Just-in-time debugging option and run your program standalone until the access violation occurs. Then, in the Access Violation dialog box, you can click Cancel to start the debugger.

Also see the Knowledge Base article Q133174, "How to Locate Where a General Protection (GP) Fault Occurs." You can find Knowledge Base articles on the MSDN Library CD or at http://search.support.microsoft.com/

See Also

Debugging Visual C++ FAQs | Debugging Visual C++