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Eric J.
Eric J.

Reputation: 150108

Unable to start VS2012 Profiler

I'm trying to start a performance profiling session in Visual Studio 2012 RTM on Windows 8 PRO 64-bit for a console program (ANALYZE / Start Performance Analysis).

I get a popup message informing me

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.PerformanceTools.CounterInfo.dll' or one of its dependencies. The Specified module could not be found.

Apparently this can happen under VS2010 after KB2645410 is installed. I carefully followed the procedure given for this issue with the same error message:

Visual Studio 2010 SP1, KB2645410 and Add-Ins

However, that does not resolve the issue.

I have tried running VS2012 as Administrator as well.

How can I get the profiler working?

UPDATE

I can actually attach to a running instance of the project from the command line using the steps here:

Walkthrough: Command-Line Profiling Using Sampling

However, Visual Studio does not open the resulting .vspx file (it just does nothing after I open it with File / Open File).

UPDATE 2

Fuslogvw reports two binding errors when I attempt to start the profiler:

VS 2012 Profiler Binding Errors - Pastebin

Upvotes: 11

Views: 10025

Answers (6)

dburmeister
dburmeister

Reputation: 540

Once I uninstalled re-sharper my issue was resolved.

Upvotes: -1

Eric J.
Eric J.

Reputation: 150108

Adding the following to the system path resolved the issue for me permanently.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools

Some other answers may be appropriate to other situations.

Note that you probably will need to run Visual Studio as Administrator for profiling to work correctly.

Upvotes: 7

Stephen Oberauer
Stephen Oberauer

Reputation: 5365

The same question exists here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a6487155-980c-4bc8-82de-2fe588fdf37f/windows-update-kb2645410-and-performance-tools-error

The following are suggested workarounds:

  • Remove windows update KB2645410
  • Only run one instance of Visual Studio
  • If you are the administrator on your development PC you can add the permission to Everyone to read and execute all the content in the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools" and subfolders/files.
  • "I backed everything up and did a complete repair of Visual Studio using the original disk from Microsoft. That allowed the computer to shut down normally. Then I tried the patch again. It hung again, but after a few reboots we got a message about deleting corrupt files and finally everything seems OK."

Upvotes: 1

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 122

My issue was resolved when I realized that my user access control was set too high. Once that was turned off, I rebooted and it all worked great.

Upvotes: 0

lostyzd
lostyzd

Reputation: 4523

I delete the .suo file and everythings works correctly now.

Upvotes: 1

TheJoeIaut
TheJoeIaut

Reputation: 1532

I also struggled with that issue.

I found a working solution for me:

I opende the XXX.sln file using notepad.

There i found several parts in the Project and Global Section looking something like this:

ProjectSection(SolutionItems) = preProject
    Performance1.psess = Performance1.psess
EndProjectSection

I removed all of them and that made my Analyzer work again.

Upvotes: 5

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