Comments for Oren Nachman http://www.nachmore.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Oren http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 Oren Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:16:47 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-1062 <a href="#comment-731" rel="nofollow">@Alex </a> Thanks - well spotted! Fixed now... @Alex
Thanks – well spotted! Fixed now…

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Oren http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Oren Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:16:18 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-1061 <a href="#comment-715" rel="nofollow">@Eugen </a> <a href="#comment-266" rel="nofollow">@Gareth </a> Are you guys running into <a href="http://www.nachmore.com/2010/bug-silverlight-crashes-along-with-the-browser-when-profiled/" rel="nofollow">this</a>? @Eugen
@Gareth
Are you guys running into this?

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Alex http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Alex Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:06:26 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-731 Oren, you have a mistype VsPerfClrEnv doesn't have switch -globalon. It's in VSPerfCmd Oren, you have a mistype
VsPerfClrEnv doesn’t have switch -globalon.
It’s in VSPerfCmd

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Eugen http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Eugen Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:30:22 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-715 @Gareth Same Problem here, IE 8 crashes after the application is launched when I click on a control. The application is rather small, just for testing. It has one dependency on another class library (small too). Could this dependency force the error? @Gareth
Same Problem here, IE 8 crashes after the application is launched when I click on a control. The application is rather small, just for testing. It has one dependency on another class library (small too). Could this dependency force the error?

]]> Comment on Restart / Shutdown Windows 7 from a Remote Desktop Session by Oren http://www.nachmore.com/2010/restart-shutdown-windows-7-from-a-remote-desktop-session/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Oren Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:56:35 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=27#comment-272 Great to see you commenting :P Thanks for the tip, I've added it to the post! (We should catch up offline!) Great to see you commenting :P Thanks for the tip, I’ve added it to the post!

(We should catch up offline!)

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Gareth http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-266 Gareth Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:45:20 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-266 <a href="#comment-264" rel="nofollow">@Gareth </a> Further to this I have tested on a different, smaller SL application and I can click around it no problem, and the browser does not crash. I;m then able to examine the .vsp in vs 2010 as expected. The larger application I have has many projects with dependencies, so I am unsure how to collect the assemblies required. I have tried unzipping all those contained in the xap file, and also merging everything from all the projects Bin directories into a single location. I have then run the described process from that location, but I still get the same crashing browser! I've run out of ideas at the moment. Any suggestions much appreciated. G @Gareth

Further to this I have tested on a different, smaller SL application and I can click around it no problem, and the browser does not crash. I;m then able to examine the .vsp in vs 2010 as expected.

The larger application I have has many projects with dependencies, so I am unsure how to collect the assemblies required. I have tried unzipping all those contained in the xap file, and also merging everything from all the projects Bin directories into a single location. I have then run the described process from that location, but I still get the same crashing browser!

I’ve run out of ideas at the moment. Any suggestions much appreciated.

G

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Gareth http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Gareth Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:06:43 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-264 Oren This is the best resource for profiling silverlight 4 apps that I can find. Thanks so much! However, I have serious problems with IE8 crashing constantly when trying to profile my application. I have successfully managed to capture around 900 samples of useful profiling data before the crash, including references to all my code etc. However sometimes it crashes after only a few (<20) samples. The crash happens generally as soon as I interact with the application. I've tried with and without the reg hack to enable/disable multiple processes in IE. I've even tried it in Google Chrome and I have the same issue. The test game that you suggest is no longer available at the link. Not sure what I can try next? Please help Thanks Gareth Oren

This is the best resource for profiling silverlight 4 apps that I can find. Thanks so much!

However, I have serious problems with IE8 crashing constantly when trying to profile my application. I have successfully managed to capture around 900 samples of useful profiling data before the crash, including references to all my code etc. However sometimes it crashes after only a few (<20) samples. The crash happens generally as soon as I interact with the application.

I've tried with and without the reg hack to enable/disable multiple processes in IE. I've even tried it in Google Chrome and I have the same issue.

The test game that you suggest is no longer available at the link.

Not sure what I can try next? Please help

Thanks
Gareth

]]> Comment on Restart / Shutdown Windows 7 from a Remote Desktop Session by Rodney http://www.nachmore.com/2010/restart-shutdown-windows-7-from-a-remote-desktop-session/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Rodney Thu, 27 May 2010 03:16:27 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=27#comment-245 Hi Oren! Good to see you back blogging and keeping us all up to date with good tricks. Alternatively, you could try "shutdown -i" for an easy to use GUI to shutdown, restart, etc a bunch of machines, remotely. Hope things are going great for you guys! :-) Hi Oren! Good to see you back blogging and keeping us all up to date with good tricks. Alternatively, you could try “shutdown -i” for an easy to use GUI to shutdown, restart, etc a bunch of machines, remotely.

Hope things are going great for you guys! :-)

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by Oren http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Oren Fri, 14 May 2010 05:18:24 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-199 <a href="#comment-197" rel="nofollow">@David Nelson </a> Hi David - The "modules" view is part of the VSP interface, but to bring it up you may need to first click "Show all code" (Visual Studio will hide code it thinks is irrelevant to what you want to see, in order to simplify analysis). I've never actually encountered your error message though. "agcore" is Silverlight, but it's a native DLL so it makes sense that that would show up. I'm worried about the claim that you haven't set your environment variables via VSPerfClrEnv, especially if you have! Were you running this all from an elevated Visual Studio 2010 command prompt? I just noticed that I didn't mention that it is better to run this elevated (I'll update the post now). Feel free to send me a transcript of the Command Prompt session (oren@) and of the output from the VSP itself - would be great to find out what went wrong here. @David Nelson
Hi David -

The “modules” view is part of the VSP interface, but to bring it up you may need to first click “Show all code” (Visual Studio will hide code it thinks is irrelevant to what you want to see, in order to simplify analysis).

I’ve never actually encountered your error message though. “agcore” is Silverlight, but it’s a native DLL so it makes sense that that would show up. I’m worried about the claim that you haven’t set your environment variables via VSPerfClrEnv, especially if you have! Were you running this all from an elevated Visual Studio 2010 command prompt? I just noticed that I didn’t mention that it is better to run this elevated (I’ll update the post now).

Feel free to send me a transcript of the Command Prompt session (oren@) and of the output from the VSP itself – would be great to find out what went wrong here.

]]> Comment on Profiling Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010 by David Nelson http://www.nachmore.com/2010/profiling-silverlight-4-with-visual-studio-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-197 David Nelson Fri, 14 May 2010 00:30:29 +0000 http://www.nachmore.com/?p=31#comment-197 I am trying to use this method to profile my Silverlight application, but all I ever get is a bunch of calls to agcore.dll. I also get an error saying "It appears that the file was collected without properly setting the environment variables with VSPerfCLREnv.cmd. Symbols for managed binaries may not resolve." But I have followed the steps exactly, several times. I tried to follow your troubleshooting steps, but in the very first step, I don't see a "Modules" view. Can you perhaps shed some light on this? I am trying to use this method to profile my Silverlight application, but all I ever get is a bunch of calls to agcore.dll. I also get an error saying “It appears that the file was collected without properly setting the environment variables with VSPerfCLREnv.cmd. Symbols for managed binaries may not resolve.” But I have followed the steps exactly, several times. I tried to follow your troubleshooting steps, but in the very first step, I don’t see a “Modules” view. Can you perhaps shed some light on this?

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