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Win32: Is there a difference between Dr. Watson's full/mini dumps and writing my own?

I have an application that is occasionally crashing in the release build; unfortunately, it looks like it is crashing in a 3rd party DLL. While trying to get a handle on it I've been swimming in a sea of HOW TOs and descriptions of how Windows creates crash dumps.

I was thinking about using this suggested mini-dump:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/696580/getting-a-dump-of-a-process-that-crashes-on-startup/700108#700108

I was planning on leaving this functionality in the code so the dump is always created for my application without having to have the PC set up beforehand. BTW, this application is not for distribution; it will be paired with our own hardware so I'm not concerned about random users having dump files building on their machines if the application happens to crash.

Additional note: all of the code is C/C++.

Is there a difference between what Dr. Watson (drwtsn32.exe) and this code will produce for me?

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Win32: Is there a difference between Dr. Watson's full/mini dumps and writing my own?