Questions tagged [debug-diagnostic-tool]
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Visual Studio 2019 Diagnostic Tools always say "There is no data in the current set of filters"
The diagnostic tools in Visual Studio 2019 Community have stopped working. It shows it's recording the CPU profile but whenever I pause the program to see the results, the tools say "There is no data in the current set of filters."
It was working at…

EVG Labs
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Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools - how to change selected process?
I'm using Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015 debugging SharePoint Web Part.
I'm attached to a few w3wp.exe processes and the window displays this message:
Multiple processes are being debugged, but this window is only showing data for w3wp.exe…

Mariusz Ignatowicz
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Enable Live Graph in Memory Usage while Debugging in Visual Studio
Somehow I have lost the live graph from my Visual Studio Diagnostic Tool.
Below is my current debugging screen showing that I can not see Memory and CPU usage live graph :
Where as I am looking for this :
I tried exploring in following places as…

Рахул Маквана
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Resource limits have been exceeded. Data collection in this window has been stopped. Visual Studio 2017
I am running an ASP.NET MVC web application on Visual Studio 2017 over IIS.
The Diagnostic Tools tell me the alert:
Resource limits have been exceeded. Data collection in this window has
been stopped.
Screenshot:
It happens after running…

Salomon Zhang
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VS2015: Diagnostic tools failed unexpectedly and no "Diagnostic Hub" in output window
when starting up an application i always get an error in the "Diagnostic Tools" Window saying:
The diagnostic tools failed unexpectedly. The Diagnostics Hub output in the Output window may contain additional information.
I already found a…

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VS 2015 Diagnostic Tools window is blank
I'm using Visual Studio 2015. I'm trying to use Diagnostic Tools and somehow that window is always blank. There is nothing displayed in that window. There is no error too. I tried the same with empty IDE, loading a project, and debugging the project…

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DebugDiag Perf Analysis fails with error System.ArgumentException
I am trying to debug high CPU usage in an IIS app pool on a Windows 2012 R2 server. I have installed DebugDiag v2 Update 3 and collected dumps of the IIS app pool whenever its CPU usage goes above a specified threshold.
I was able to get 11 dumps…

blizz
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Diagnostic Tools Failure -Diagnostics Hub - HttpClient cannot be null
Using IIS Express, with Visual Studio 2015, Update 1, when trying to start a MVC 5 website I get the message:
HttpClient cannot be null.
and then the site doesn't show.
I have tried the usual tricks of "closing, deleting the suo and reopening" or…

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VS 2022 - Diagnostic Tools failed unexpectedly
I have a problem with the current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Version 17.0.0.
Every time I start debugging my project the the Diagnostic Tools give me the following error:
The diagnostic tools failed unexpectedly. The Diagnostics Hub output…

Robin
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Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools. Failed to enable provider
I’m trying to get the Diagnostics Tools in Visual studio 2019 to work while having multiple instances of Visual studio running.
One is fine two works. Three or four, there is where the trouble starts.
Then I get
The diagnostic tool failed…

Jaurocha
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Saving the list of events from Diagnostic Tools in VS2015
Is there a way to save the list of events shown in the Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostic Tools Events tab to a file?

Dean Kuga
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Visual Studio 2015 Script Error when launching the debugger
When starting to debug a web application (MVC or Webforms, it doesn't matter), I get a bunch of Script Error pop-ups.
Line: 1087
Char: 13
Error: Unable to get property "addEventListener" of undefined or null reference.
Code: 0
URL: File:// ...…

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How can I see SQL events (Application Insights) in the Diagnostic Tools window of Visual Studio 2015 in Console Application without using Azure?
Is there any way to see Application Insights events (like SQL queries) in a Console application just like in a ASP.NET application?
I have installed Application Insights NuGets, configured the ApplicationInsights.config and I can see the events in…

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Diagnostic Tool in VS does not catch ADO.NET when using ASYNC methods
I am developing a web API and using asynchronous as much as i can.
I am using unitOfWork Pattern with Repository Pattern and EF 6.1.3.
I know that in Diagnostic Tools in VS2015 we can see ADO.NET events and we can check the queries performed…

Pedro Costa
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The diagnostic tools failed unexpectly in Visual Studio 2015
In the diagnostics hub output window, I can see the line
Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.
for one or more times.
Can anyone give me a hint where to look for this "unexpected character"?

Helmut
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