Release notes - version 4.xx

ANTS Profiler

• Enabling logs to track the profiling session
• Changing the interprocess communications ports in version 4
• Double hit counts occurring on one line
• System.EntryPointNotFoundException (Versions: 3,4 only)
• Version 3.0 Unhandled startup exception on Windows Vista
• Version 3 add-in grayed out on non-English Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
• Methods in (ASCX) web controls may not appear
• Failed to CoCreate Profiler error profiling a Windows service
• Multiple-core portable computers may show inflated times (version 3)
• No .NET methods were profiled on web application
• ANTS Profiler code instrumentation method
• Profiling a single assembly in version 3
• Filtering results by individual thread
• Add-in fails to load when using RunAs to start Visual Studio as another user
• Profiling unit tests using Nunit
• Can I profile Compact Framework applications?
• Profiling a SharePoint 2007 Web Part
• Profiling an assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
• Additional hidden statistics in the results grid (version 3)
• Multiple floating ANT icons in Visual Studio (version 3)
• ANTS Profiler overhead adjustments
• Profiling IIS web applications that need to run under the SYSTEM account
• Profiling a web application hosted in IIS on a fixed TCP port
• Add-in 'Object Reference not set to an instance of an object' error
• Profiling client-side XBAP .NET applications
• ANTS Profiler prompts for location of source code which is not your own source code
• ANTS menu remains in Visual Studio after uninstall of ANTS Profiler
• Profiling a web application needing to run as the Network Service account
• Abnormal termination caused by .NET 2.0 critical finalizer threads
• Cannot start COM+ application via Remote Desktop
• Fast mode and memory profiling options unavailable
• Finding the overall time taken to execute a thread
• Running an IIS application pool as a named identity
• IIS web application always loads default website
• Profiling BizTalk applications
• Profiling Microsoft Office managed-code add-ins
• The system cannot find the file specified
• Error Stopping IISAdmin profiling IIS web application on Windows XP
• ANTS Memory Profiler total size of all objects does not match the memory footprint of an application
• Lines of source code do not align with hit count, time data in version 3
• Creating a global debugging symbols (PDB) directory
• Profiling a SharePoint site collection
• Using the add-in to profile solutions containing more than one project
• Methods may be missing on multi-core systems in version 3
• ASP .NET 1.x application recycling causing incomplete results
• Ambiguous site selection message when profiling IIS applications
• Application recycling causes incomplete results and other errors when profiling ASP .NET
• Profiling WCF services hosted in IIS
• Cannot profile IIS 6 web application on port lower than 1024
• (version 5) Support for profiling Silverlight applications
• Couldn't open metabase error when profiling ASP .NET hosted in IIS
• Failed to coCreate Profiler on ASP .NET web application
• HTTP error 404.17 profiling ASP .NET 1.1 on IIS 7
• Performance counters missing from results
• Isolating single ASP .NET pages in ANTS Profiler results
• Missing hits for lines in the source code view
• ANTS Profiler restarts IIS
• Showing the amount of time taken for a method in one particular thread
• Common ASP .NET memory issues
• Please specify a valid URL message profiling ASP .NET
• Times on individual lines do not add up to method time
• Manually installing the add-in
• Error starting services running as "Local Service"
• Explanation of "thread blocked" methods in ANTS Profiler
• Call graph percentages do not add up exactly
• Operation could destabilize the runtime error profiling ASP .NET
• IIS ceases to work after profiling web applications
• Access to the Temp directory is denied error profiling web applications
• Problems with ANTS Visual Studio integration
• Unable to coCreate Profiler error profiling any application

all products

• Some Red Gate products identified as containing a trojan by Anti-Virus software
• Activation may fail with Unknown Error -1
• Product uses web help although a CHM file is available locally
• Argument exception resulting from missing environment variable
• Check for updates may fail when used through proxies
• 'Unidentified Publisher' error when repairing or uninstalling
• Licensing activates product as standard edition
• Moving Red Gate software products to another machine
• Red Gate tools log locations
• The application UI opening slowly when there is no internet access