How to debug a window service dump file (.dmp) in Visual Studio 2015

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I have been provided with a dump files of a window service application, (let's say CalendarService.dmp and CalendarServicemini.dmp). Tester has been reporting the issue of high CPU utilization (almost 100%) while window service is running on test server. He has created a dump file of that service and sent it to us. The window service is part of a solution file which consists of other service projects and class libraries.

I have tried opening the solution file at my end and at the same time opened the dump file in the same window, where I was shown with different options under Action. Following are the list of actions selected with the output received followed with the small DLL loading window.

For Debug with Managed Only received Source Not Available

For Debug with Mixed received Source Not Available

For Debug with Native Only received The application is in break mode

This is for the first time, I am using such functionality and I am not sure about the basic requirements and setup needed to reproduce the issue of high CPU utilization. Also it would be good to know if such scenarios can be debug at my end using the dump files. Can somebody please put me in the right direction?

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