How do I Trace a Dsl/DslPackage at run-time (Visual Studio VS2012)

Question

How do I trace a VS2012 DSL/DSL Package VSIX at run-time. I have an odd bug with an error message, "Value of 'null' is not valid for 'stream'" and I guess it's something to do with deserializing the XML written by the DSL.

Although I can add breakpoints in the DSL code while debugging in the Exp Instance, the code is so event driven that it is difficut to find the cause.

I don't want to litter the code with Trace.Writeline statements. Instead I'd like to monitor what the application is doing to get a stack trace or similar. I know this sort of thing is possible with Unix, but don't know with Win 8.1.

Visual Studio's Activity Log is not much help.

thanks John

Answer 1

You should be able to trace your package with Runtime Flow (commercial, developed by me, 30-day trial). Run monitoring for Visual Studio and set filter to your package .dll.