What are these .s and .x files alongside my executable?

Question

We have some applications built against .NET 3.5 and referencing ESRI ArcObjects .NET DLLs (which in turn reference COM DLLs). We're running them on Windows 2008.

Sometimes I will look in the applications' installation directories and alongside the EXEs there are a list of files with .s and .x extensions.

I wondered if they were generated if the program crashes, but if it is then it doesn't appear to be consistent. The file names are all in the pattern "xx#####", where ##### are numbers, which I thought may have been related to process IDs but I'm not certain about that.

I didn't put those files there, and I can't find any information as to what they are. What are they and why are they there?

Answer 1

It appears these are ESRI-related files. They are not anything to do with .NET per se.

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=982&t=284781