Managed Stack Explorer: A Tool to Complement Process Explorer

I hope y’all are using Sysinternals Process Explorer on a daily basis as your Task Manager replacement. It’s a really awesome tool with lots of functionality; among my favorites are:

    Seeing all the handles and DLLs opened by the process in the bottom pane
    Monitoring important .NET performance counters through the .NET Performance tab
    Viewing a list of the process’ threads and their respective call stacks

This last feature, however, has a minor drawback: it doesn’t display managed call stacks properly. The reason is the same as with many other debugging tools – managed symbol resolution requires different APIs than native symbol resolution (through Dbghelp.dll).

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