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James Alexander
James Alexander

Reputation: 6302

Unable to start profiler in VS 2010

After launching the performance wizard, selecting Instrumentation, choosing one web project and a few C# library projects, and enabling Tier Interaction Profiling, I get this weird leading off with:

Restoring the configuration file failed. File '...\web.config.backup.3b2912c9-3849-2724-8317-1a7da3819869' could not be copied to '...web.config'. The process cannot access the file '...\web.config' because it is being used by another process.

I should also add that the web application in question is hosted in IIS. Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1292

Answers (3)

Hillbilly Coder
Hillbilly Coder

Reputation: 1171

I encountered this while working with VS2012, but discovered it was AppFabric on my local development machine that was holding the web.config hostage.

I disabled and stopped the Services on my local box and everything was back to normal.

Upvotes: 0

Tamir
Tamir

Reputation: 3901

Had the same. what I did is to find who's holding my files (did it using the "process explorer" from SysInternal). you need to use the "Find Handle Or DLL" - shortcut CTRL+F and put the address and it will find the relevant processes.

The handle that hold my file was the process "Windows Event Collector Service" so I killed it and all came back to normal.

Upvotes: 1

adudley
adudley

Reputation: 944

I've had something similar with web.configs. You say it's hosted using IIS, is the web.config actually in the wwwroot (or sub directory of that)?

And I guess you are using Windows 7/Server 2008?

Its UAC if so.

You can turn of User Account Control, or run whatever application it is as administrator, even if you 'are the administrator'.

Or just copy [do not move!] the files to your 'my documents', do whatever with them, then put them back.

Either way, I would try the upgrade with a copy of the files in your 'my documents' folder to ensure you have all the privileges you need.

Good luck.

Upvotes: 0

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