How to debug crashes and hangs

At my job on the C# IDE QA team I've learned some useful things about debugging in Visual Studio, which I'd like to summarize in this post: Turning off "Enable just my code" Attaching the debugger using Tools | Attach To Process Selecting Managed, Native for mixed-mode debugging or Enable unmanaged code debugging Attaching to multiple processes Selecting processes and threads Breaking on first-chance exceptions using the Debug | Exceptions dialog Picking the right thread Loading symbols Viewing the call stack Saving the minidump file