Managed Stack Explorer

New Post: Does not run on Vista Home Premium

eschneider — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:37:40 GMT

I added a patch for this issue. ID=2952

Patch Uploaded: #2952

eschneider — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:34:05 GMT

eschneider has uploaded a patch.

Description:
FormatException raised when starting application on Vist Home Premium, dual core AMD.

Added catch block in method: GeneralProcessData.InitializePerfCounters

New Post: Does not run on Vista Home Premium

eschneider001 — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:09:32 GMT

Vista Home Premium

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1008
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Open Procedure for service "MSDTC" in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\msdtcuiu.DLL" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9174</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>MSDTC</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\msdtcuiu.DLL</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>02000780</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1008
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Open Procedure for service "Lsa" in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9173</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>Lsa</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>05000000</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1008
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Open Procedure for service "ESENT" in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\esentprf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9172</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>ESENT</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\esentprf.dll</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>02000000</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1010
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Collect Procedure for the "EmdCache" service in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\emdmgmt.dll" generated an exception or returned an invalid status. The performance data returned by the counter DLL will not be returned in the Perf Data Block. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the exception code or status code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1010</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9171</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>EmdCache</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\emdmgmt.dll</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>8F040000</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1010
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Collect Procedure for the "DTSPipeline100" service in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\DTSPipelinePerf100.dll" generated an exception or returned an invalid status. The performance data returned by the counter DLL will not be returned in the Perf Data Block. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the exception code or status code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1010</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9170</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>DTSPipeline100</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\DTSPipelinePerf100.dll</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>57000000</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date:          5/26/2009 6:57:50 PM
Event ID:      1008
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      eschneider-lap
Description:
The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">1008</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-26T23:57:50.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9169</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>eschneider-lap</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
      <param1>BITS</param1>
      <param2>C:\Windows\system32\bitsperf.dll</param2>
      <binaryDataSize>4</binaryDataSize>
      <binaryData>05000000</binaryData>
    </EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>

System.FormatException was unhandled
Message="Input string was not in a correct format."
Source="mscorlib"
StackTrace:
       at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
       at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
       at System.Int32.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider)
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetStringTable(Boolean isHelp)
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_NameTable()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_CategoryTable()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CounterExists(String category, String counter, Boolean& categoryExists)
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CounterExists(String machine, String category, String counter)
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.NextSample()
       at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.NextValue()
       at Microsoft.Mse.Gui.GeneralProcessData.InitializePerfCounters()
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
InnerException:

New Post: When will MSE support IIS7 stack trace?

doggy8088 — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:18:29 GMT

Hi,

This tool is so great! It looks like can't work with IIS7. Are you plan to support IIS7 stack trace in the future?

New Post: Deadlock detection

wanne — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:13:29 GMT

This tiny little tool is simply great!

I'm searching for tools that I can use to analyse a .NET app that was deadlocked.
By checking the stack traces of all threads I should be able to find the two threads involved in the deadlock. Both should have a call to Monitor.Enter or similiar on the very top of the callstack.
I wrote a little sample app that creates a deadlock with two threads and two locks using Monitor.Enter. When I looked at it with MSE I could see the stack traces of the two involved threads but could not find the call to Monitor.Enter in the stacktrace. On the very top of the stack trace was the thread method itself. I then wrapped the call to Monitor.Enter in another method and this method was displayed in the stack trace...

Does anybody have an idea why the call to Monitor.Enter is not contained in the stack trace?

tia
Karl

Created Issue: MSE always runs in 32 bit mode so doesn't show x64 processes

katz1058 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:21:10 GMT

I found this problem and tracked it down to the version of ILMerge that was used on version 1.0. I recompiled using the latest ILMerge and it resolved the problem. It would be great if we could get an official fixed release out.

Here are the details on the ILMerge fix.

http://research.microsoft.com/~mbarnett/ILMerge.aspx

2.0.7.228
1.1.7.228 28 February 2007 Fixes problem where merged assemblies ran as a 32-bit process even on a 64-bit machine.
ILMerge is now a strongly-named assembly.
Fixes a problem with adjusting the accessibility of a type when a subtype has a more restricted accessibility.
Makes sure there are no duplicate assembly names in the list of input assemblies.
Various generics fixes.
On an error, the stack trace is now written to the log.

Project License Changed

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:23:42 GMT

Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

NEW POST: View Designer of UI classes fails - how to view/edit UI in source?

Jemts — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:06:46 GMT

Coding the gui by hand would be pretty tedious.
I am unable to reproduce the problem you are having. When I load the solution the Designers load fine for all of the forms

NEW POST: View Designer of UI classes fails - how to view/edit UI in source?

MikeSL — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:04:23 GMT

I've downloaded and loaded the latest source into VS 2005 (Team Suite) SP1, and I'm trying to dig into the UI design (i.e. right-click on one of the .CS files, choose "View Designer") but it's failing with the following error:

"Warning 4 The designer could not be shown for this file because none of the classes within it can be designed."

This occurs for all the UI classes that I've tried so far, including MSE\FindBox.cs, MSE\InfoSelect.cs, MSE\MainGui.cs and MSE\PreferenceForm.cs.

Is there some setting in the Project that needs to be reconfigured, so that this code can be loaded properly in the VS Designer for these classes? How was it this WinForms app was originally developed? I'm assuming that though this was created by some really smart folks at Microsoft, they still edited the UI graphically, and didn't just write the raw UI code in Notepad. :) That *would* be badass, but c'mon...

Project License Changed

Thu, 31 May 2007 23:22:54 GMT

Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

COMMENTED ISSUE: Does not run with VS host enabled

feelite — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:32:40 GMT

Once you build MSE, it does not run under VS2005 because of VSHost issues. The problem is that under the debugger, the Main() function will try to get the current module and re-execute it in some GUI mode. But with VSHost, that name is wrong. It gets the application string via: Process p = Process.GetCurrentProcess(); string Application = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(p.MainModule.FileName); However, with VSHost, the application is "C:\\dev\\MSE\\StackExplorer\\MSE\\bin\\Debug\\MSEPart.vshost.exe" So Main() will call CreateProcess() directly on a vshost process without actually having VS start debugging it, which obviously will not work. (Note managed-debugging, unlike native, does not support debugging a child-process, and so the debugger won't automatically attach to the newly created process to start cooperating with VSHost). If you Ctrl+F5 (launch outside of debugger), then it runs fine. In that case, Application will be: "C:\\dev\\MSE\\StackExplorer\\MSE\\bin\\Debug\\MSEPart.exe" and so it launches the correct process. I notice there's a 'debugMode' bool in Main() that you can manually change to override this behavior, but you shouldn't have to physically change Main() in order to launch it under the debugger. This makes a bad first impression of using the tool because you build it under VS, press F5, and expect it to just work without having to modify Main(). Here's the main function from the version I'm looking at: public static int Main(string$$ args) { //if true then new process isnt created which allows easier debugging bool debugMode = false; IntPtr INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = (IntPtr)(-1); if (args == null || args.Length == 0) { const int STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11; IntPtr stdOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); //if the stdOuit handle is -1 or we are in debug mode then run the gui if ((stdOut == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) || debugMode) { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.Run(new MainGui()); } else { //create a new process to run the gui in const int DETACHED_PROCESS = 0x00000008; const int STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW = 0x00000001; const int STARTF_USESTDHANDLES = 0x00000100; const int SW_SHOW = 5; Process p = Process.GetCurrentProcess(); //path to the exe string Application = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(p.MainModule.FileName); string CommandLine = ""; PROCESS_INFORMATION pInfo = new PROCESS_INFORMATION(); STARTUPINFO sInfo = new STARTUPINFO(); sInfo.cb = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(sInfo); sInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW | STARTF_USESTDHANDLES; sInfo.wShowWindow = SW_SHOW; //send stdOutput as -1 to tell new process to open as gui sInfo.hStdOutput = (IntPtr)(-1); SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES pSec = new SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES(); SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES tSec = new SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES(); pSec.nLength = Marshal.SizeOf(pSec); tSec.nLength = Marshal.SizeOf(tSec); //create the new process CreateProcess(Application, CommandLine,ref pSec, ref tSec, true, DETACHED_PROCESS, IntPtr.Zero, null, ref sInfo, out pInfo); } } else { //run in command line mode if arguments are present int error = 1; using (ArgumentExecuter argExecute = new ArgumentExecuter(args)) { try { if ((error = argExecute.ExecuteArguments()) != 0) { Console.WriteLine(argExecute.ErrorMessage); } } catch (System.IO.IOException ex) { error = 1; Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } } return error; } return 0; } Comments: Fix checked-in by making the debugMode a variable instead of constant and check for Debugger.IsAttached property

CLOSED ISSUE: Does not run with VS host enabled

feelite — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:29:29 GMT

Source code checked in

feelite — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:29:28 GMT

Fix for Work Item 109 "Does not run with VS host enabled"

Project License Changed

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:23:25 GMT

Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms “reproduce,” “reproduction,” “derivative works,” and “distribution” have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A “contribution” is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A “contributor” is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. “Licensed patents” are a contributor’s patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors’ name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

For MSE Users: How to show threads and their stack for unmanaged processes

radoslav — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:12:57 GMT

Examples are: 1. Worker process for ASP.NET w3wp.exe, 2. Biztalk service process BTSNTSvc.exe etc. Another question: How to get more information for (Source Unavailable) items (method names or parameter names and its values) How easy is it to add some kind of auditing module to output what parameters were passed (in in case they are of string and other primitive types). This might be AOP programming and I don't know where to start. Can I dynamically inject an AOP dll into an arbitrary process an its sturtup Application domain and on demand start logging method calls. Please see: Injecting a DLL into Another Process's Address Space: http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-P/dll/article.php/c105 Thanks, Rad

For MSE Users: Great work

killa888 — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:30:12 GMT

Just wanted to say great work on this tool. It takes some really useful functions from the WinDbg product (and others) and provides a very simple UI that users can use to keep track of what is happening on the stack. My only recommendation would be to show a list of objects (VM address, size, type def.) like what you can get from doing a !dumpheap -stat in windbg. Perhaps from a seperate menu command.

UPDATED WIKI: MSE Assignment Agreement Instructions

saraford — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:44:29 GMT

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Managed Stack Explorer project. In order to have your contributions included in future versions of Managed Stack Explorer, you need to fill out the assignment form covering your contributions.

Please print a hard copy of the Project Assignment Agreement posted on the Managed Stack Explorer homepage, fill it and return the signed original:

CWC
Managed Stack Explorer Project
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052

Instructions for filling out the Assignment Agreement:

In the title of the agreement, before "Assignment Agreement," please enter "Managed Stack Explorer"
In initial paragraph, please enter your full legal name in the space labeled "You"
In paragraph #1, please enter "Managed Stack Explorer" in the space labeled "Project"
At the bottom of the agreement, please fill in your full legal name, signature and date on the designated lines at the end of the agreement. Please be sure to enter the date of your signature on the line labeled Date, below the signature line.
If authorization is required from any entity other than you, the individual, please have authorized representatives from the entity(s) complete the Name, Signature, By, Title and Date lines in the spaces provided below your own signature.

If you have any questions regarding this assignment agreement or how to fill it out, please contact [url: Sara Ford | http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/contact.aspx].

For MSE Users: xp 64bit not supported?

twoelfer — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:44:52 GMT

can i make this run under xp64? when i try to start mse, it does show the gui window, but dies emmediately afterwards. (i tried to download and build from the sources in order to check out the problem, but it looks like its impossible to build either...) WM_THX -thomas woelfer

For MSE Developers: RE: MSE - Can't Build

saraford — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:01:55 GMT

originally posted by Craig Lichtenstein - MSFT ------------------------------------------------------- So, you can build MSBee on the command line with msbuild.exe or using VS 2005. The key difference is that when you change the settings.targets file and build on the command line, msbuild.exe immediately picks up on those changes. This is because msbuild reloads the project files each time you build and those projects files are importing the settings.targets file. Thus, each time you build, your settings.targets file is reloaded. In the VS IDE, each project is loaded once when you open the MSBee solution. If you try to alter the settings.targets file after you've opened the projects in the IDE, the changes won't take affect until your reload the projects. You can do this by right clicking on each project and selecting Unload Project. Once the project is unloaded, right click on the project again and select Reload Project. Alternatively, you can close the entire solution and reopen it. Until you reload your projects in the IDE, the changes to settings.targets won't take affect.

For MSE Developers: RE: MSE - Can't Build

saraford — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:57:45 GMT

originally posted by Vince P ------------------------------------------------------- I was looking at Sara's answer to another person's problem and she recommended to close and reopen the solution. I hadn't done that when I made changes to targets (didn't know I had to). So I have now closed and reopened the solution and was able to build the solution. I guess the targets file is only read at the time the solution is open and so any changes to it are not noted unless the solution is reopened. Thanks for your help it works now.