Detect all depencies of an application

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Published on 2010-04-20T09:50:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 9:53 UTC
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Hi All,

I am in the process of "detecting" (more like listing down) all of the dependencies of our application.

Currently, I am using depends.exe (Dependency Walker) to detect all of the file dependencies.

I was actually able to get pass all the error messages about missing files and dependencies. However, when launching the app, all I get is a crash without any messages at all.

On a "working" configuration/system, I was able to launch this app successfully. Killing a certain service will produce the "crashing" behavior. This leads me to the conclusion that SOMETHING on this service is needed by the App and this service is a dependency. However, depends.exe will not be able to "detect" this dependency.

My question is: Is there an application that can programmatically detect dependencies such as Database and Services?

Thanks!

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