Call Hierarchy

[Chris Botha]

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.

 

[Teemu]

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

 

[Family Tree Mike]

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());

 

[Chris Botha]

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.

 

[Chris Botha]

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

 

[Duggi]

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

 

[Peter Morris]

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.