ANTS Profiler
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Multiple floating ANT icons in Visual Studio (version 3)
Category: Troubleshooting & error messages
Date: 10 Jun 2009
Product: ANTS Profiler
Versions: 3.0,3.1,3.2
Platforms: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003
On Visual Studio 2003 startup, multiple floating windows with the text 'ANT' may appear when the ANTS Profiler add-in is installed.
We have not fully identified the cause of this issue. There are no 'ANT' icons embedded in our add-in project, however, these seem to appear after installing the Profiler add-in and will proliferate each time Visual Studio 2003 is started. Resetting the environment for Visual Studio seems to clear away these superfluous icons. To do this:
- Start the Visual Studio 2003 command prompt from the Visual Studio 2003 Tools program group
- Run the command 'devenv /setup'
Please note that setup will reset all Visual Studio 2003 add-ins, so use this with care if you have other add-ins that have saved settings.
This issue does not affect the ANTS Profiler add-in for Visual Studio 2005.
ANTS Profiler versions 4 and up do not support Visual Studio 2003, so this would not be an issue any longer.
Document ID: KB200708000137 Keywords: ANTS,Profiler,ANT,floating,icon,add-in,2003,Studio,window
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