Red Gate forums: ANTS Performance Profiler 5

RE: Deactivation tool

hernon — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:41 GMT

Could please PM the utility as well? We have rebuilt a few machines that were previously activated.

RE: Deactivation tool

ismehdi — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:11:32 GMT

Brian Donahue wrote:

Hi Joseph,

The deactivation tool picks up Red Gate licenses that it finds on the computer, so after you have formatted it, it's too late. I will PM you a link to a utility that you can use to deactivate if you know the serial number, product name, and version of the software that you had previously installed. Hopefully that does the trick for you.

Please Can you send me the utility. I have the same issue on a couple of machines which have already been formatted and I need to deactivate the software.

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:25:55 GMT

Rebooting the server after installing these updates did the trick. Thanks a lot Chris. It would have been helpful if
1. After installation it had prompted for a reboot
2. Give some kind of message that it was missing VC++ libraries when I tried to profile app and not just show a scary "No results to display" screen

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:45:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I installed both, but still see the same behavior. I get the same error entry in the Application log - do we need to reboot after installing this. I didn't yet 'coz it takes some time to get approvals around here! Let me know if it is something I should look at, or could there be another issue?

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

Chris.Allen — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:13:04 GMT

Well spotted.

This error may be caused by an improperly-installed Visual C++ Runtime, which is a prerequisite of the Performance and Memory Profilers.

To solve this problem, please reinstall the Visual Studio 2005 C++ runtime and the required ATL update:

32-bit Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647

64-bit Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=eb4ebe2d-33c0-4a47-9dd4-b9a6d7bd44da

Also recommended- The ATL update for both 32 and 64-bit systems, available from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2 If this also appears in any error (e.g. in the Windows application event log):

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:22:15 GMT

I see this error in Eventviewer->Application logs
Log Name: Application
Source: SideBySide
Date: 2/22/2012 9:33:29 AM
Event ID: 33
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ktmqapmd03.ad.99only.com
Description:
Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\Red Gate\ANTS Performance Profiler 5\ProfilerCore.dll". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="SideBySide" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49409">33</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-02-22T15:33:29.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>26622503</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ktmqapmd03.ad.99only.com</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053"</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\Red Gate\ANTS Performance Profiler 5\ProfilerCore.dll</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
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</EventData>
</Event>

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:03 GMT

Hi,
I am getting really late on this, is there any log file in ANTS profiler that will tell me what the reason is, it just shows me a blank screen - not even a message saying no source code available...
How do I run this explicitly as Administrator. Right clicking on C:\Program Files\Red Gate\ANTS Performance Profiler 5\RedGate.Profiler.UI.exe and running as administrator doesn't seem to help.
Where does it write logs, can I explicitly set permissions for that folder so that it can be written to by All Users(just as a temp fix)?

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:35 GMT

Chris.Allen wrote:

Very hard to say what is happening- possibly the app is run with specific permissions that are not enough to write the data to the logged-in account temp directory. Can you try running ANTS explicitly as administrator please?

Thanks Chris,
I remember it asked a question like "Do you want to run as administrator" also prompting that the the program wont ask the question again. I don't clearly remember what I selected. I thought I would uninstall and re installing it, but it didn't ask me that question again. How do I fix this?

RE: "No results to Display" after running prof session on server

Chris.Allen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:24 GMT

"No results to Display" after running prof session on server

mdfaraz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:08:52 GMT

Hi, I am using ANTS profiler 5 to profile a .NET console application developed using VS 2008 .NET framework 3.5SP1. We bought the license few months ago and were using it to evaluate performance of Apps on Dev machines. Last week, we wanted to run a similar test on the server where it normally runs. I copied the source code folder from the dev machine to the server, installed ANTS performance profiler 5 on the server and tried to profile the particular .exe of interest. However I get a "No results to display" screen after the exe runs and exits. The exe is doing what it should, but profiler is not showing any results. Any reasons why. The server is a Windows 2008 server machine running on a VM.

RE: Deactivation tool

SimonB — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:48:25 GMT

Hello,

We have similar problem. We own 5 user licences of .NET developer bundle. One license was used by a developer that no longer works with us.

We would like to reclaim the license that was used on his computer and give it do another developer. That machine was already formatted.

Can you please help us to reclaim that license?

RE: Profile existing WCF services

Brian Donahue — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:32:43 GMT

I still don't see any information relevant to profiler in the previous text. But WCF can be hosted in any type of application and the profiler only cared about the process type, such as desktop application, windows service, or WCF hosted in IIS.

And I'm not sure what you have - is it hosted in a Windows Service? Then you would use the option to profile a Windows Service.

However, there is also information about web.config and .svc files, so I can't tell if your code is a Windows Service or a WCF hosted in IIS.

RE: Profile existing WCF services

Ninosd — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:26:02 GMT

Like I said, I've posted extra information in regards the steps I've taken and the outcome I got. So please just disregard that and answer my question.

How do you profile a WCF service with your profiler? And I have version 5.2

RE: Profile existing WCF services

Brian Donahue — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:12:27 GMT

But you are posting all sorts of errors about installutil. And then that the service will not start (error code 5).

RE: Profile existing WCF services

Ninosd — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:37:09 GMT

Brian,

I see that you didn't even read the post. I gave some extra info on the things I've tried to profile a WCF service with your profiler.

I hope my question is clear.