Troubleshooting
Published 14 May 2018
Common issues
- Interpreting unexpected results
- Troubleshooting application crashes
- Troubleshooting IIS profiling
- Troubleshooting licensing and activation errors
- Troubleshooting missing results
- Troubleshooting PDB problems
- Troubleshooting SharePoint Profiling
- Troubleshooting SQL call and HTTP request profiling
Error messages
- 'Common language runtime detected an invalid program' error when profiling
- Couldn't open metabase
- Error stopping IISAdmin profiling IIS web application on Windows XP
- Failed to CoCreate Profiler
- Failed to coCreate Profiler on ASP .NET web application
- IIS stops working after profiling web applications
- Method not found: 'UInt32 <Module>._ANTS_Begin_Sql(System.String)'
- No .NET methods were profiled on web application
- No Disk error occurring while profiling application
- Operation could destabilize the runtime error profiling ASP.NET
- Please specify a valid URL message profiling ASP.NET
- The system cannot find the file specified
3rd party components
Unexpected behavior / technical questions
- Attach to process unavailable with some anti-virus software
- Call graph percentages do not add up exactly
- Can I profile Compact Framework applications?
- Double hit counts occurring on one line
- Forcing your application to use .NET 4
- How to profile a web application needing to run as the Network Service account
- HTTP request timings in IIS
- Isolating single ASP .NET pages in ANTS Profiler results
- Memory leaks observed when profiling Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications
- Missing hits for lines in the source code view
- Problems synchronizing results
- Profiler prompts for location of source code which is not your own source code
- Profiler stopping while profiling an in-browser Silverlight application
- Profiling an assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
- Profiling ClickOnce applications deployed to IIS
- Profiling Microsoft Office managed-code add-ins
- Profiling SecurityTransparent and partially-trusted assemblies
- Profiling unit tests using Nunit
- Profiling web services in IIS Express
- Showing the amount of time taken for a method in one particular thread
- Times in source code window are greater than the times showing in the method grid or tree view
- Times on individual lines do not add up to method time
- Windows service profiling fails if the service uses a system account
- Silverlight out-of-browser profiling causes ANTS Performance & Memory Profilers to crash
