How do I make a thread dump in .NET ? (a la JVM thread dumps)

Question

I have found no way of dumping the stack on all threads in .NET. Neither a signal to be send to the process nor programatic access to all the threads. I can only get access to t

Answer 1

If you need to do this programmatically (maybe you want automatic dumps during your CI process), you can use the info from this answer to a different question.

Basically, attach to your own process using CLR MD:

using Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime;

using (DataTarget target = DataTarget.AttachToProcess(
    Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id, 5000, AttachFlag.Passive))
{
    ClrRuntime runtime = target.ClrVersions.First().CreateRuntime();
    foreach (ClrThread thread in runtime.Threads)
    {
        IList stackFrames = thread.StackTrace;
        PrintStackTrace(stackFrames);            
    }
}

Here PrintStackTrace is left as an exercise for the reader.