README.md

fancystacks

Take a stack from the VS debugger and make it into linkified markdown.

Got an interesting stack in Visual Studio that you'd like to share? Prettify and linkify it into something like this:

• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.LoadAssembly(assemblyLoadInfo) Line 162
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.AssemblyInfoToLoadedTypes.ScanAssemblyForPublicTypes() Line 355
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.AssemblyInfoToLoadedTypes.GetLoadedTypeByTypeName.AnonymousMethod__0(key) Line 326
• mscorlib.dll!System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentDictionary<string, System.Type>.GetOrAdd(key, valueFactory) Line 1069
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.AssemblyInfoToLoadedTypes.GetLoadedTypeByTypeName(typeName) Line 299
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.GetLoadedType(cache, typeName, assembly) Line 226
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Shared.TypeLoader.Load(typeName, assembly) Line 192
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.AssemblyTaskFactory.InitializeFactory(loadInfo, taskName, taskParameters, taskElementContents, taskFactoryIdentityParameters, taskHostFactoryExplicitlyRequested, targetLoggingContext, elementLocation, taskProjectFile) Line 278
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Execution.TaskRegistry.RegisteredTaskRecord.GetTaskFactory(targetLoggingContext, elementLocation, taskProjectFile) Line 1307
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Execution.TaskRegistry.RegisteredTaskRecord.CanTaskBeCreatedByFactory(taskName, taskProjectFile, taskIdentityParameters, targetLoggingContext, elementLocation) Line 1189
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Execution.TaskRegistry.GetMatchingRegistration(taskName, taskRecords, taskProjectFile, taskIdentityParameters, targetLoggingContext, elementLocation) Line 689
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Execution.TaskRegistry.GetTaskRegistrationRecord(taskName, taskProjectFile, taskIdentityParameters, exactMatchRequired, targetLoggingContext, elementLocation, retrievedFromCache) Line 538
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.Execution.TaskRegistry.GetRegisteredTask(taskName, taskProjectFile, taskIdentityParameters, exactMatchRequired, targetLoggingContext, elementLocation) Line 417
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.FindTaskInRegistry(taskIdentityParameters) Line 868
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.FindTask(taskIdentityParameters) Line 249
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteBucket(taskHost, bucket, howToExecuteTask, lookupHash) Line 414
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteTask(mode, lookup) Line 325
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteTask(loggingContext, requestEntry, targetBuilderCallback, taskInstance, mode, inferLookup, executeLookup, cancellationToken) Line 179
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TargetEntry.ProcessBucket(taskBuilder, targetLoggingContext, mode, lookupForInference, lookupForExecution) Line 816
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TargetEntry.ExecuteTarget(taskBuilder, requestEntry, projectLoggingContext, cancellationToken) Line 499
• Microsoft.Build.dll!Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TargetBuilder.ProcessTargetStack(taskBuilder) Line 486

How to use

In the Visual Studio debugger, select the stack frames of interest, then "Copy with source paths".