Stack Trace Explorer

Parse those pesty unreadable long stack traces. Stack Trace Explorer provides syntax highlighting and easy navigation to elements in the stack trace.

Installing

Visual Studio Marketplace

Github Releases

Open VSIX Gallery

Usage

You can find the Stack Trace Explorer at

View - Other Windows - Stack Trace Explorer

or the default keybinding

Ctrl + S, T

Features

• Clicking a filepath will open the file at the line mentioned in the stacktrace
• Clicking a method will open the corresponding file at the start of that method
• Wrap long stacktraces
• Syntax highlighting
• Dark theme support
• Tabs

Opening a new tab

There are multiple ways open opening new tabs to show your stack traces:

Copy a stack trace to your clipboard:

• Click the paste as new tab but
• Select a tab, make sure your cursor is not in the text editor, Paste your stack trace with Ctrl + V

Stack trace from file:

• Click the open file button
• Drag & drop the file to the toolwindow

Supported stack trace formats

• Visual Studio
• Application Insights
• Ben.Demystifier

Screenshots

Debug extension

On StackTraceExplorer.VS2022 project property, set 'Debug' properties as the following:

• set radio button to Start external program
• browse for Visual Studio executable (like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe)
• set /RootSuffix Exp in Command line arguments

Thanks

• Resharper (for the initial idea to recreate this)
• Terrajobst (for some inspiration on optimizing the extension)
• dlstucki (for a large PR optimizing StackTraceExplorer for large solutions)
• pmiossec (for several PRs reviving StackTraceExplorer)