Tool to monitor/trace all method calls?

[lisa@starways.net]

Debugging in .NET is so obnoxious. More often than not, due to the
whole object oriented thing, the errors I'm getting are inside of
objects that I then have to open up and poke through.

I can do that. It's not the end of the world. But it takes forever.

SQL Server has a trace utility (SQL Profiler). Has anyone made
anything comparable for .NET? Something that I can turn on and will
display a record every time a method gets called or a property gets
accessed or an event gets raised?

I've searched, but I haven't succeeded in finding anything.

Anyone?

[Steve Walker]

In message <1120687710.613803.76590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
[email]lisa@starways.net[/email] writes

>Debugging in .NET is so obnoxious. More often than not, due to the
>whole object oriented thing, the errors I'm getting are inside of
>objects that I then have to open up and poke through.
>
>I can do that. It's not the end of the world. But it takes forever.
>
>SQL Server has a trace utility (SQL Profiler). Has anyone made
>anything comparable for .NET? Something that I can turn on and will
>display a record every time a method gets called or a property gets
>accessed or an event gets raised?
>
>I've searched, but I haven't succeeded in finding anything.

Have a look at:

[url]http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/1969_ENG_HTML.htm[/url]

I can't remember what all of the tools do, but the kind of thing you're
looking for is definitely their kind of product.

The problem you may have is that a well designed OO system is likely to
exhibit a far higher number of calls than you would see with
SQLProfiler, so you won't realistically be able to do it real-time. I'm
not sure you'll really get anything more valuable than a call stack,
which you can view through the Visual Studio IDE anyway.

--
Steve Walker

[lisa@starways.net]

Steve Walker wrote:

> In message <1120687710.613803.76590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
> [email]lisa@starways.net[/email] writes

> >Debugging in .NET is so obnoxious. More often than not, due to the
> >whole object oriented thing, the errors I'm getting are inside of
> >objects that I then have to open up and poke through.
> >
> >I can do that. It's not the end of the world. But it takes forever.
> >
> >SQL Server has a trace utility (SQL Profiler). Has anyone made
> >anything comparable for .NET? Something that I can turn on and will
> >display a record every time a method gets called or a property gets
> >accessed or an event gets raised?
> >
> >I've searched, but I haven't succeeded in finding anything.

>
> Have a look at:
>
> [url]http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/1969_ENG_HTML.htm[/url]
>
> I can't remember what all of the tools do, but the kind of thing you're
> looking for is definitely their kind of product.

Thanks. I'll look at it.

> The problem you may have is that a well designed OO system is likely to
> exhibit a far higher number of calls than you would see with
> SQLProfiler, so you won't realistically be able to do it real-time. I'm
> not sure you'll really get anything more valuable than a call stack,
> which you can view through the Visual Studio IDE anyway.

How can I do that? Sorry if that's a dumb question, but are you saying
that I can see the call stack during execution without having to add a
ton of extra code to my project?

Lisa