No ASP.NET development web server option?

craigw9292

I'm using ANTS Pro 3.1.0.20.

XP SP2 with VS 2008, asp.net C#.

When I start the profiler the asp.net development web server is not selectable? I made the patch to add VS V9 to my addin file but that didn't help. This works fine on my other images (XP SP2 with VS2005) so I can only assume its a VS 2008 issue?

Thanks,
Craig

craigw9292

I tried debugging directly from VS and it says it can't find the WebDev executable ... and I can't find how to change that

thanks

Brian Donahue

Hi Craig,

Thanks for posting; yes, this is a Visual Studio 2008 issue caused by the WebDev.Webserver.exe being moved to the %commonprogramfiles% folder whereas it used to be available in the .NET Framework installation folder.

The workaround is to start the development web server as a normal desktop application.

• Start ANTS Profiler
• Select either Profile memory or Profile performance
• Select .NET desktop application as the type of project
• Click the elipsis (...) to the right of .NET desktop application and browse to %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\DevServer\9.0
  and select Webdev.WebServer.exe
• Let the working directory automatically update
• Fill in the arguments necessary to start your web application:
  /Path:"c:\inetpub\MyApp" -the path to the web application on your hard drive
  /port:8080 -a TCP port not currently used by IIS (or other app)
  /vpath:"/MyApp" -the name of the virtual directory where the app normally is found in when you run it in IIS
• Choose what code to profile and click Finish
• Start a web browser and enter the address of the web app on your local machine, in this case http://localhost:8080/MyApp
• Use ANTS Profiler as normal (take snapshot, etc)
• When you are finished, close the web browser and then the console window launched by webdev.webserver.

craigw9292

Thanks Brian. I'm sure that would have worked however I took your initial note about them moving the server exe and just put a copy back in the 2.0 framework folder. Works fine and then also lets me profile right from within VS.

Craig

Brian Donahue

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the alternate workaround suggestion. I'm glad that works for you.