I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
calling path of procedures.
I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but I
can't wait, I kind of need this right now.

Anyone knows of something available?
I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.

Thanks.

"Chris Botha" <(E-Mail Removed)> kirjoitti viestissä
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>I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
>calling path of procedures.
> I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but I
> can't wait, I kind of need this right now.
>
> Anyone knows of something available?
> I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but...

One solution is to set a breakpoint in the beginning of the Sub or Function.
When your program hits the breakpoint you can see the call stack in VB
(press Ctrl+L if it's not in sight).

-Teemu

"Chris Botha" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
>calling path of procedures.
> I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but I
> can't wait, I kind of need this right now.
>
> Anyone knows of something available?
> I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.
>
> Thanks.


You could add logging information at the start of every routine (tedious, I
know...).

Something like this could be added:

Console.Out.WriteLine(new StackTrace().ToString());


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Mike

Thanks, it is a big project in production, probably close to a thousand
functions and numerous paths to the function I am interested in, so I need
some kind of a tool to give me the call hierarchy so that I can back-track
the call paths.


"Teemu" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Chris Botha" <(E-Mail Removed)> kirjoitti viestissä
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
>>calling path of procedures.
>> I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but
>> I can't wait, I kind of need this right now.
>>
>> Anyone knows of something available?
>> I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but...
>
> One solution is to set a breakpoint in the beginning of the Sub or
> Function. When your program hits the breakpoint you can see the call stack
> in VB (press Ctrl+L if it's not in sight).
>
> -Teemu

Thanks, can't be done though - see my response to Teemu's message above.


"Family Tree Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Chris Botha" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
>>calling path of procedures.
>> I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but
>> I can't wait, I kind of need this right now.
>>
>> Anyone knows of something available?
>> I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> You could add logging information at the start of every routine (tedious,
> I know...).
>
> Something like this could be added:
>
> Console.Out.WriteLine(new StackTrace().ToString());
>
>
> --
> Mike
>

On Dec 20, 6:49*am, "Chris Botha" <a...@aaa.aaa> wrote:
> I need the call hierarchy of procedures in a project in order to trace the
> calling path of procedures.
> I googled and found this nifty functionality is included in VS 2010, but I
> can't wait, I kind of need this right now.
>
> Anyone knows of something available?
> I'm using VS 2008 and the project is a VB .net project.
>
> Thanks.

Hi Chris,

Previously suggested methods are the best practices as I know. However
you wrote, as its big project, it is not feasiable. I am curious to
know the purpose behind knowing the calling hierarchy. Is it for the
sake of reverse engineering some maintainency project or for dynamic
analysis / code coverage of new project .... The suggestion will
differ depending on the situation.


Thanks
-Cnu

Reflector lets you do that but only one method at a time rather than
auto-processing all methods and outputting the result to a report.


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