How to Debug .net applications without Visual Studio

Question

Please let me know if this has been asked before, I wasn\'t able to find any questions on this subject:-

I need to determine the inner exception of an exception thro

Answer 1

you can use remote debugging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y7f5zaaa.aspx

Answer 2

Have you had a look at MDBG? It may take you a while to get around but is fairly straight forward.

Also DbgClr may be an option, I think its still supposed to be in the SDK somewhere.

Answer 3

It is actually fairly simple to do this with WinDbg if you have a crash dump. Load the dump into WinDbg, load sos, and run the printexception command.

>.load sos
>!printexception

This will tell you the exception as well as point you to the inner exception. Output will be something like:

0:000> !printexception
Exception object: 0135b340
Exception type: System.ApplicationException
Message: GetAverage failed
InnerException: System.IndexOutOfRangeException, use !PrintException 01358394 to see more
<stack trace follows>

If you don't have a memory dump already, you can create one using adplus (which comes with WinDbg).

>adplus -crash -o<dump location> -quiet -pn<name of process>

If you prefer to use PID use the -p option instead.