Visual studio breakpoint conditional on the stack state

Question

Visual studio can print call stack when breakpoint hit, and can stop when conditions are met, is there any way to combine that and stop when function is called from another selected one, and ignore all other calls?

Answer 1

I believe the only way to do this is with a macro. Right click your breakpoint, choose "When Hit..", select "Run a macro", and point it to a macro that goes something like:

 Sub ContinueUnlessCalledFromRightContext()
    For Each frame As EnvDTE.StackFrame In DTE.Debugger.CurrentThread.StackFrames
        If (frame.FunctionName.Contains("SomeOtherMethodsName") Then Exit Function
    Next

    DTE.Debugger.Go() ` we weren't called from the right context so continue execution.
End Sub

The above is half psuedo code; I didn't actually test it, but should work with some minor edits.

Note that this will be slow as hell if the breakpoint is hit a lot of times, because running macros from breakpoints is inherently very slow.

BTW, If you were asking about .NET / C# it would've been a lot simpler, you could've just made a conditional breakpoint on

new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace().ToString().Contains("SomeOtherMethodsName")

...and be done with it.

Answer 2

Not sure but you might be able to with either Filtering or Conditions, though it might be easier to just put the breakpoint on the calling process instead

This is a good resource: Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide