how to monitor exe and dll interactions?

Hello everyone,


Are there any tool or other methods which could be used to monitor which class/method exe is accessing a DLL?

Now I met with an issue that when I provide the DLL I developed to a 3rd parth application, it will crash sometimes and I suspect the 3rd party application is invoking some class/method which I do not implement the DLL. I have the full source codes of the DLL, but has no source codes of the exe so I am wondering whether there are some methods to monitor the interactions -- e.g. I can monitor which class/method the exe is invoking and at the same time my DLL has not implemented.

I am using Visual Studio 2005 to develop native (unmanaged) C++ DLL, and I expose the interface of the DLL to exe through COM interface.


thanks in advance,
George

If you don't have a function in your DLL, then it shouldn't be crashing - at least if the app is written correctly.

If you use the debugger, what's on the stack when it fails? If it's CALLING a null-pointer [function not in the DLL] then it should be fairly obvious that this is happening.

I personally think it's more likely that the failure is that you are returning/producting something "bad" in your DLL - since this is a much harder case to check in the calling code - detecting that an exported function doesn't exist is basic good practice [not that ALL programmers do that sort of thing, of course].

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Mats