Questions tagged [diagnostic-tools]
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ScriptedSandbox64.exe has stopped working - Visual Studio 2015
This is the second time I've seen the error "Scripted Sandbox64.exe has stopped working" in Visual Studio 2015.
In my particular case, I was building a Windows Forms application and you place the application into the system tray in Windows. This…

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Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostic Tools Window doesn't show up
I'm able to show the diagnostic tools windows via Debug -> Windows -> Show Diagnostic Tool.
But that windows always disappears when starting / debugging the application.
What is going on?

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Getting memory error trying to debug manage memory with a big minidump file
I'm trying to "Debug Managed Memory" with Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition. The file is at 1.2GB and after while loading I get the error message "Memory analysis could not be completed due to insufficient memory" after have been pressing "Debug…

NPehrsson
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Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2017
I've installed Visual Studio 2017 and I was playing with Diagnostic Tools. suddenly, after some restarts, the window does not open anymore and I don't figure out how to do it. Anyone knows how can I open it again ?

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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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Visual Studio 2017 Network Diagnostics Tool not applicable
I have a WPF project in Visual Studio Community 2017 and I would like to enable the Network diagnostics debugging tool but it is under the list "Not Applicable Tools" in the Performance profiler... menu, with the following provided reason: Network…

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What is process memory usage?
I have a 32-bit application developed in Visual Studio 2017 and would like to understand what is process memory usage as shown in VS diagnostic tools.
As far as I understand the total memory usage of my app is about 330 MB but the used heap size is…

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Can't get Visual Studio Diagnostic Tools to work
I'm having some problems getting the Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015 (with Update 3) to start. I build and launch a project in Debug Mode, the Diagnostic Tools window pops up with the text
Starting Diagnostic Tools...
and after around ten…

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How do I identify a problem flagged by JET.JL?
I started using JET.jl recently. In most cases it is helpful. However, sometimes I just cannot figure out why it has a problem with my code. An example is below. The function foo is very basic and works fine. Still, JET.jl’s macro @report_call…

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Can't take native memory snapshots in Visual Studio 2017 Diagnostic Tools
I'm writing a C# application with Visual Studio 2017 Community. I have an issue with a memory leak, presumably having something to do with me misusing one DLL that allocates things on the native heap. I'd like to find out how I'm causing the DLL to…

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The Diagnostics Tools window does not support the current debugging configuration
I would like to use diagnostic tool in Visual studio 2015.
When I try to open it, I get this message:
"The Diagnostics Tools window does not support the current debugging configuration"
Same problem was described here:
Diagnostic tool failed
I have…

Simon
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By any chance, can we visualize what all goes to stack and what all goes to heap in a process (may be c#)?
I started exploring the Clrmd for visualizing what all variables that goes to stack and heap, and ended up with some set of (>1000) objects in the heap out of which majority of are of string type, which are not created by me in the process and a…

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My rootogram is displaying incorrect values along the x-axis
I am trying to model the relationship between conspecific and heterospecific pollen counts on individual flowers under a poisson or negative binomial distribution using the glm()/glm.nb() functions in R…

Arjan Engelen
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Can't connect to Diagnostic Events while debugging Service Fabric app
I just created a fresh Service Fabric app with a stateless ASP.NET Core Web API service as an admin with a 5-machine debug cluster running locally. When I debug it (or any other Service Fabric app), it launches and runs successfully (e.g. I can see…

Whit Waldo
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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…

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