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Simsons
Simsons

Reputation: 12745

Can I debug an Exe

I need to compare few function calls and signature between my application and an working application. Here I don't mean any way to reverse engineer or access the source code of the other application , but truly need to know what are the methods , Interfaces used by the working application.

I tried attaching my application to Visual Studio and then , Start>Debug , but this doesn't provide any useful information. Any help.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10520

Answers (4)

Sergey Vlasov
Sergey Vlasov

Reputation: 27930

Runtime Flow (developed by me) can show all method calls in the working .NET application without need for source code.

Upvotes: 1

Kamran Khan
Kamran Khan

Reputation: 9986

Couple of solutions that I can think of:

  1. Attach the exe with VS IDE Debugger, and use PDB files to debug the exe
  2. Use Reflector to point towards your exe, and check the source. See example.

Upvotes: 0

MaQleod
MaQleod

Reputation: 999

you can debug code, but once its compiled, its machine language and a debugger in Visual Studio is not going to do anything at all.

In order to get an idea of what a compiled executable is doing, you can use a program like this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Upvotes: 1

Arsen Mkrtchyan
Arsen Mkrtchyan

Reputation: 50752

Reflector Pro Visual Studio plug in can debug not only exe you write, but any other assembly ;)

Upvotes: 5

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