Managed Stack Explorer 1.0

Do you ever need to get stack traces for your .NET 2.0 applications? Want a quick and easy way to monitor managed processes and threads? Need a way to view a thread's stack trace to investigate an application hang?

If so, Managed Stack Explorer is for you.

Managed Stack Explorer is a lightweight tool that allows you to do just this. Simply copy the executable anywhere and start monitoring your stack traces today.

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Debug .NET 2.0 Application Hangs Faster and Easier

Managed Stack Explorer is a simple executable, no install required, that can be copied and run anywhere the .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.

Managed Stack Explorer uses the Debugging and Profiling APIs to attach and then immediately detach from an application, only suspending the application / thread for the minimum amount of time required to obtain the stack trace.

Use Managed Stack Explorer to

• View stack traces of one or more threads at the same time
• Record stack traces over time at specified intervals
• Monitor threads of one or more processes
• Log output at any time or for the duration of a monitoring session

Note: Currently, Managed Stack Explorer only supports retrieving stack traces from .NET 2.0 applications.

Provide Customers with Issue-Reporting Tools

Provide your customers with Managed Stack Explorer to log sessions of applications hangs. Did we mention no installation required? Use these logs to assist with diagnosing customer-reported issues.

Make Managed Stack Explorer Even Better!

Currently, Managed Stack Explorer is in beta, so we would love for you to send us feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions. Join the Managed Stack Explorer project on CodePlex and send us your feedback. By signing up as a member of the Managed Stack Explorer community, you'll get updates for new releases and other Power Toy for Visual Studio news.

The final release for Managed Stack Explorer will be as a shared source project, meaning you'll be able to download the source and share your changes with the community.

Managed Stack Explorer is a member of Power Toys for Microsoft Visual Studio, developed by the Developer Solutions team at Microsoft Corporation.