How to see stacktrace .NET application

Question

I have a .NET Windows application in production that does not have access to Visual Studio (standard version), and the only thing they can install is the Express version , which does not have the option "Debug on time" (the one that has a debug button when it crashes). So I'm just wondering if there is a Windows application debugging tool or something else that I can run or attach to see stacktraces. I also included PDB in my application, but it does not provide more information, so I can track my failures (caused by unhandled exceptions).

Answer 1

You can also use windbg and sos.dll

Answer 2

If you catch exceptions, the Exception object contains a stack trace: Exception.StackTrace . In addition, you have access to it with Environment.StackTrace .

The code below also has an event handler for unhandled exceptions that will write the exception, including the stack trace, to the event log.

// Sample for the Environment.StackTrace property
using System;

class Sample
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += 
          new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(UnhandledExceptions);

        Console.WriteLine("StackTrace: '{0}'", Environment.StackTrace);
        throw new Exception("Fatal Error");
    }

    static void UnhandledExceptions(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
    {
        string source = "SOTest";
        if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(source))
        {
            System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(source, "Application");
        }

        System.Diagnostics.EventLog log = new System.Diagnostics.EventLog();
        log.Source = source;

        log.WriteEntry(e.ExceptionObject.ToString(), 
                       System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error);
    }

Answer 3

CLR Profiler

Answer 4

.NET- "".

alt text http://eduncan911.com/blog/thumbnail/exception-in-iis-stackoverflow-logs.png

Answer 5

Perhaps EQATEC Tracer can help you.

Answer 6

Using:

• .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x86)

• .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x64)

The .NET Framework 2.0 SDK comes with the Microsoft CLR debugger. It works similarly to the Visual Studio debugger (although the source files are read-only), so you can try it.