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When you load a dump file in Visual Studio 2010, the debugger looks for modules starting in the same location as the dump file. Suppose the following binary and modules were loaded when you created a dump file:

D:\qa\exmpl\exmpl.exe
D:\qa\exmpl\dll.dll
F:\win2k\system32\ntdll.dlll
F:\win2k\system32\kernel32.dll

The dump file exmpl.dmp is found in this location:

C:\qa\dumps\exmpl.dmp

Visual Studio 2010 searches the following locations:

C:\qa\dumps\exmpl.exe
C:\qa\dumps\exmpl\exmpl.exe
C:\qa\dumps\qa\exmpl\exmpl.exe
D:\qa\exmpl\exmpl.exe

C:\qa\dumps\dll.dll
C:\qa\dumps\exmpl\dll.dll
C:\qa\dumps\qa\exmpl\dll.dll
D:\qa\exmpl\dll.dll

C:\qa\dumps\kernel32.dll
C:\qa\dumps\system32\kernel32.dll
C:\qa\dumps\win2k\system32\kernel32.dll
F:\win32\system32\kernel32.dll

In earlier versions of Visual Studio, the MODPATH argument was used to specify additional module search paths. Visual Studio 2010 looks for modules in the specified symbol search paths and does not use MODPATH.

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