Nothing happens

David Rutten

Been a while since I used the Performance Profiler, just tried to run it and nothing happens. I've got 5.2.0.26 installed.

When I start the profiler from the VS 2008 ANTS5 menu, it shows up, it starts the exe, but nothing is recorded and the profiler window remains blank.

What am I doing wrong?

Brian Donahue

Hello David,

Does Performance Profiler work from the Start Menu? This would rule out Profiler itself as the cause so we could focus on the add-in.

You may just want to use to from the start menu anyway if it works. Going through the add-in doesn't save you a significant amount of time anyway.

David Rutten

I get the exact same behaviour via the Start Menu. It starts the target exe (C++ MFC app), nothing is being recorded. I start my .NET plugin, nothing is being recorded. This used to work just fine, it's probably some settings I changed somewhere but don't remember.

Brian Donahue

ANTS Profiler doesn't connect until your application loads the .NET Framework. No MFC code is going to be profiled. Only the managed stuff.

David Rutten

Brian Donahue wrote:

ANTS Profiler doesn't connect until your application loads the .NET Framework. No MFC code is going to be profiled. Only the managed stuff.

That's fine, I only care about the .NET code anyway. But even when my .NET plug-in is clearly up and running, ANTS is still blank.