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
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)
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