Can I debug an Exe

I need to compare few function calls and signature between my application and an working 开发者_StackOverflow中文版application. Here I don't mean any way to reverse engineer or access the source code of the other application , but truly need to know what are the methods , Interfaces used by the working application.

I tried attaching my application to Visual Studio and then , Start>Debug , but this doesn't provide any useful information. Any help.

Reflector Pro Visual Studio plug in can debug not only exe you write, but any other assembly ;)

you can debug code, but once its compiled, its machine language and a debugger in Visual Studio is not going to do anything at all.

In order to get an idea of what a compiled executable is doing, you can use a program like this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Runtime Flow (developed by me) can show all method calls in the working .NET application without need for source code.

Couple of solutions that I can think of:

1. Attach the exe with VS IDE Debugger, and use PDB files to debug the exe
2. Use Reflector to point towards your exe, and check the source. See example.