Writing WinDbg Extensions
One of WinDbg's strengths is that its capabilities can be expanded by writing custom extension commands. This can be quite convenient, particularly for formatting the display of driver-specific data structures. This section explains the process of adding extension commands to WinDbg.
How WinDbg Extensions Work
A WinDbg extension is just a user-mode DLL that exports various commands in the form of DLL functions. The extension DLL also contains several support routines that perform initialization and version-checking operations.
The linkage between target system memory (whether crash file dump or a live target) is established with callback routines that the extension DLL uses to reference the debug target. This means ...
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