VB Watch

VB Watch is a useful program that allows you to take cover from run-time errors, test, debug and profile your code
VB Watch is a useful program that allows you to take cover from run-time errors, test, debug and profile your code. VB Watch is 3 tools in one: Profiler, Protector and Debugger. Increase the quality, stability and performance of your programs.

VB Watch Profiler:
Measure speed and coverage
Where are the bottlenecks? VB Watch Profiler lets you measure execution speed. See what procedures are the slowest ones, and which lines or loops are taking up most of the time. Or measure execution times before and after your enhancements.
Test coverage. Are you sure you tested all your code? VB Watch Profiler records your tests as you execute them. It shows you in red what procedures and lines are still untested.

VB Watch Protector:
The best error handling ever
No more mysterious error messages and crashes! No more yelling users! Find bugs the easy way. VB Watch adds advanced error handlers to your code with a few clicks, keeping your existing handlers fully enabled.

VB Watch Debugger:
Trace compiled apps
Why debug compiled code? This is the way to do it when you're creating ActiveX controls or writing code for web browsers or Microsoft Transaction Server. Does your code behave as it should when compiled?

Trace the procedure calls and executed code lines in your compiled apps. Even better, monitor and pause your app. See its status. What line is it on? What procedures were called with what arguments? Call stack? Which objects are alive? What global variable values are in effect? Setup breakpoints to your exe, dll or ocx and see what's really happening in it.

Requirements:

Visual Basic 6.0


Limitations:

Some features disabled


What's New in This Release:

Stand-alone or add-in. Execute VB Watch as a stand-alone tool or an add-in. Profile, Debug and Protect outside the VB IDE.

Console automates instrumentation of one or more projects. Supports batch processing. (Enterprise Edition)

Profiler enhancements

Graphs: View timings and execution counts in bar and pie graphs.

Flow chart: view timings and execution counts in call tree format.

View source with profiling results as color-coded HTML. Printable.

More robust profiling for long sessions (.pfd file allows 5x more data in 2 GB limit).

Print results. No need to export for printing.

Ignore specific code lines with filters. Define critical code and view coverage results separately.

Enhanced support for project groups (vbg) , IIS projects and "Retained in memory" projects.

Generate HTML/CHM reports with charts and source code. (Enterprise Edition)

Export full data to Excel for deeper analysis or macro processing. (Enterprise Edition)

Rename and join sessions.

Protector enhancements

Better error reports: Screenshot dump, data encryption, file zip.

Option for user to "Always ignore" a run-time error.

Option for end-users to gracefully collapse the call stack, canceling the failed job but restarting from a no error state.

Protect projects that have no user interface (redistributable is .dll instead of .ocx).

Protect IIS projects.

No need to distribute .obj file any more.

Define multiple addresses as recipients of error reports.

Auto-increment version number of original project.

Debugger completely redesigned with enhancements (Enterprise Edition)

Monitor public variables.

Monitor memory use.

Remote debugging at client site via TCP/IP.

Source code pane to track execution and set breakpoints at runtime.

Other enhancements

Select modules and procedures to instrument.

Destination folder control. Produce instrumented project in any folder.

Execute default action after compilation.

Improved user interface and inline help.

Better integration with VB IDE. View selected source location in VB from Profiler, Protector and Debugger.

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