difficulties doing reverse engineering

[mansour77]

hello every body:
I have been stuck in this problem for few days. I need to do documentaion for some packages, and therefore I am interested in the reverse engineering functionalit and generating a sequence diagram.
I followed all the help that came with EA to do this, but out of luck. From my understanding I have to debug the dll then generate seq diagram from history. The problem I am facing is how to debug the dll ?? I am trying to create an instance of the class I want to debug. The constructor accepts two string arguments. The language I am using is vb.NET.  for example let's sa I need to debug myPackage.myClass  in myPackage.dll. I have to create an instance first through new (the constructor). Therefore, this is what I put in the run time variables field this:
myPackage.myClass,new,"string1", "string 2"

and then try to run deubg. But what i end up getting is :

17/01/2007 11::01 Default Directory is C:\VisualStudioProjects\pathToMySolution\
17/01/2007 11::01 Debugger CLR runtime version is v2.0.50727
17/01/2007 11::01 Process created \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\Sparx Systems\EA Trial\SSInvoke.exe running CLR version v2.0.50727
17/01/2007 11::01 Debug process in domain DefaultDomain
17/01/2007 11::01 Debug process in domain SSInvoke.exe
17/01/2007 11::01 Warning, all breakpoints failed to bind, check binaries built with debug information and source files synchronized with Model
17/01/2007 11::01 debug ends for SSInvoke.exe


One more thing, how do I debug a method ? How do I create and object of that class in order to run and deug that method ?


I reall need help in this as I have ran out of ideas.  

[mansour77]

OK, I think I am getting closer to what I want, but still not there. after I imported the dll I need to debug, I have setup the run/debug script. Now I went to the class I need to debig and created and instance of a workbench, but then when I invoke the constructor I get an error about the parameters or the code sync. I am passing the right parameters. Two strings. In the output window, I get this:

17/01/2007 12::41 Default Directory is C:\VisualStudioProjects\EcompV4_Backend\Upload45
17/01/2007 12::41 Debugger CLR runtime version is v2.0.50727
17/01/2007 12::41 Process created \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\Sparx Systems\EA Trial\SSWorkBench65.exe running CLR version v2.0.50727
17/01/2007 12::41 Debug process in domain DefaultDomain

Any ideas ?

[Eve]

I think the key to your problem is

Warning, all breakpoints failed to bind, check binaries built with debug information and source files synchronized with Model

It's suggested two possible problems.  I believe that the need for debug information doesn't need further explanation, so that leaves 'source files synchronized with Model'.

I also noticed in your second post the following 'after I imported the dll'.  If I am correct, this would be your problem.  EA needs the classes to be imported from the source in order to debug.  Importing the dll directly doesn't give sufficient information.  So I recommend importing the source into the model and trying again.