August 23rd, 2010

Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes

This release of ANTS Memory Profiler adds full support for memory profiling applications running under .NET 4 and Silverlight.

It also includes the vastly improved IIS support, along with XBAP support, that we first shipped with ANTS Profiler 4.3.

ANTS Performance Profiler 6, also available from www.red-gate.com, is our new performance profiler, which includes support for .NET 4 and Silverlight applications and also allows you to record and analyze SQL and File I/O activity.

Supported .NET Framework Versions

• 1.1
• 2.0
• 3.0
• 3.5
• 4.0
• Silverlight 4

The .NET 2.0 runtime must be installed in order for ANTS Memory Profiler to run.

Supported OS Versions

• Windows XP SP2 or later
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008 R2

Supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of all listed OSs. Windows 2000 is no longer supported.

The following feature requires the .NET 4.0 runtime and Windows Vista or
later:

• Attach to process

Other System Requirements

512 MB RAM (minimum)
 Internet Explorer 6+
 1 GB free hard disk space
Supported Visual Studio Versions

The following versions of Microsoft Visual Studio are supported by the ANTS Memory Profiler 6 add-in:

• Visual Studio 2005
• Visual Studio 2008
• Visual Studio 2010

Known Issues

For some types of application, you may have to run ANTS Memory Profiler as an administrator.

On Windows Vista and Windows 7, after profiling IIS using attach to process, ANTS Memory Profiler 6 sometimes cannot stop the session.  If this happens, restart ANTS Memory Profiler before starting a new profiling session.

In some cases, Windows Services do not restart properly after profiling. Use services.msc to restart services if required.

To profile an XBAP application, Internet Explorer must be set as your default browser and it must be closed before profiling.

To attach to a .NET 4 process, you must first disable concurrent garbage collection.