Using WinDbg it’s possible to get a dump of each XLL call that is made by Excel as it calculates. If you’re using Excel 2003, create the following breakpoint that dumps the symbol at eax+4 (the entry point that is about to be called), then continues.:
bu EXCEL!MdCallBack+0xa880 "dds @eax+0x4 L1; g"
You’ll need to adjust the offset for other versions of Excel – and I haven’t tried it yet with 2007. Assuming you’ve got symbols available for the XLLs being called, you’ll get something like this:
0013bc50 15109730 addin1!addin1_function1
0013bc50 12c0e918 addin2!addin2_anotherfunctions
This technique can be useful when troubleshooting – to identify the last addin call being made before a failure perhaps – and is also quite interesting to just watch and see the pattern in which your XLL UDFs get called.
