profiling a web page with querystring arguments

tschlarm

I searched this forum and could not find any help for this issue.

I guess I'm missing something. I'm profiling an ASP.NET 4 application with the web development server (or IIS Express). I'd like to pass a query string arguments to the page (not in the root folder) I want to profile, but there doesn't seem to be a box on the 'New Profiling Session' dialog. If I append a '?arg=value' to the path the 'Start Profiling' button is greyed out.

I suspect a redirect page would work but seems needlessly silly. Launching an intermediate page that doesn't take arguments and having to modify the string in the URL bar works also seems a bit off.

Other project types have an argument box so why not web applications?

Any suggestions?

Brian Donahue

The URL box filters out anything that would normally appear in a traditional file name (ends with *.asp|*.aspx|*.htm, etc), so you cannot enter querystring values there. There is nothing to stop you, once the browser starts, to manually put the query string into the browser's address bar.

tschlarm

True, which is what I am doing. I am only saying this is not really optimal and an argument input box would be a welcome enhancement to the dialog should someone at RG care to enter it into the bugbase.

dom.smith

Thanks for your feedback. I've added this request to our bug system, where it has internal reference PP-2259. Unfortunately, I can't promise an immediate fix but it will be considered when we are planning the next version.

tschlarm

Thanks. That's all I can ask.

Thanks for all your efforts.