Can't start ANTS Performance Profiler 9.8 (BadImageFormatException)

ErikP

When starting ANTS Performance Profiler i'm getting this exception (found in the log files) and the application closes right after starting up.

28 May 2018 14:29:12.449 [15] ERROR RedGate.Profiler.Dispatch.TaskDispatch - Unhandled exception in 'Parallel queue'

System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E6)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.Attach.Attacher.ICLRMetaHost.EnumerateLoadedRuntimes(IntPtr hndProcess, IEnumUnknown& enumerator)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.Attach.Attacher.StateForProcess(Int32 pid, IEnumerable`1& clrVersions)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.Attach.ProcessEnumerator.<get_Processes>d__10.MoveNext()

   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.Attach.RemotableProcessEnumerator.get_Processes()

   at RedGate.Profiler.Logic.Controllers.Setup.ProjectType.AttachSource..ctor(IAttachProcessEnumerator processEnum, Boolean allProcesses)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Logic.Controllers.Setup.ProjectType.AttachSettingsController.<Initialize>b__4_0(IDispatchTask t)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Logic.Controllers.Setup.ProjectType.LongRunningOperationManager.<>c__DisplayClass7_0.<RunOperation>b__0(IDispatchTask t)

   at RedGate.Profiler.Dispatch.ParallelQueue.Do(Action`1 task, Task taskDefinition)

ErikP

I want to profile at this moment and I'm very curious how to fix this.

vishnu4

Same here.

An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) Type = System.BadImageFormatException Source = CoBRACommon at _ANTS_Managed_Begin_Async() at ....