Our unit tests fire off child processes, and sometimes these child processes crash. When this happens, a Windows Error Reporting dialog pops up, and the process stays alive until this is manually dismissed. This of course prevents the unit tests from ever terminating.
How can this be avoided?
Here's an example dialog in Win7 with the usual settings:
If I disable the AeDebug registry key, the JIT debugging option goes away:
If I disable checking for solutions (the only thing I seem to have control over via the control panel), it looks like this, but still appears and still stops the program from dying until the user presses something. WerAddExcludedApplication is documented to also have this effect.
