First look at windbg 6.7.5.1 disappointing

As Dmitry just mentioned a new version of windbg, I downloaded and installed it. I was curious, if the new version will provide better support for managed dumps as i could see big improvements in the last version.

So I loaded my standard managed crash dump file and...
where version 6.7.5.0 delivered nicely the stack by 'k':

0:000> k *** Stack trace for last set context - .thread/.cxr resets itChildEBP RetAddr 0012f094 00db0581 Demo1!Demo1._FormDemo1.ItsNorMe()+0x44 [E:\My Projects\TechChannel\Demo1\Demo1\Form1.cs @ 36]0012f094 00db054d Demo1!Demo1._FormDemo1.ItsNeitherMe()+0x19 [E:\My Projects\TechChannel\Demo1\Demo1\Form1.cs @ 28]0012f094 7b060a6b Demo1!Demo1._FormDemo1.button1_Click(System.Object, System.EventArgs)+0x1d [E:\My Projects\TechChannel\Demo1\Demo1\Form1.cs @ 23]0012f094 7b105379 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(System.EventArgs)+0x570012f094 7b10547f System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(System.EventArgs)+0x490012f094 7b0d02d2 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs)+0xc30012f094 7b072c74 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef, System.Windows.Forms.MouseButtons, Int32)+0xf20012f100 7b0815a6 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)+0x5440012f13c 7b0814c3 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)+0xce0012f19c 7b07a72d System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)+0x2b0012f19c 7b07a706 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Control+ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)+0xd0012f19c 7b07a515 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Control+ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)+0xd60012f19c 00342124 System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)+0x75WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.0012f1c0 7e418734 0x3421240012f1ec 7e418816 user32!InternalCallWinProc+0x280012f254 7e4189cd user32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x1500012f2b4 7e418a10 user32!DispatchMessageWorker+0x3060012f2c4 00f20e4e user32!DispatchMessageW+0xf0012f2e0 7b084766 CLRStub[StubLinkStub]@f20e4e0012f398 7b08432d System_Windows_Forms_ni!System.Windows.Forms.Application+ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(Int32, Int32, Int32)+0x2ea

I now get this with the new version:

0:000> k *** Stack trace for last set context - .thread/.cxr resets itChildEBP RetAddr WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.0012f094 7b072c74 0xdb05dc0012f100 7b0815a6 System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xa2c740012f13c 7b0814c3 System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xb15a60012f1c0 7e418734 System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xb14c30012f1ec 7e418816 user32!InternalCallWinProc+0x280012f254 7e4189cd user32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x1500012f2b4 7e418a10 user32!DispatchMessageWorker+0x3060012f2c4 00f20e4e user32!DispatchMessageW+0xf0012f2e0 7b084766 0xf20e4e0012f398 7b08432d System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xb47660012f408 7b08416b System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xb432d0012f438 7b0c69fe System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xb416b0012f480 79e88f63 System_Windows_Forms_ni+0xf69fe0012f490 79e88ee4 mscorwks!CallDescrWorker+0x330012f510 79e88e31 mscorwks!CallDescrWorkerWithHandler+0xa30012f650 79e88d19 mscorwks!MethodDesc::CallDescr+0x19c0012f668 79e88cf6 mscorwks!MethodDesc::CallTargetWorker+0x200012f67c 79f084b0 mscorwks!MethodDescCallSite::Call+0x180012f7e0 79f082a9 mscorwks!ClassLoader::RunMain+0x2200012fa48 79f0817e mscorwks!Assembly::ExecuteMainMethod+0xa6

Needless to say that the 'Calls' window does show the same and there is no click on a frame that brings to directly to the sources :-(

'!DumpStack -ee' still works, but this didn't change...

Resume: I will try the see the new improvements but I will not uninstall 6.7.5.0!