Profiling startup target of current VS Project doesn't work

[Eric.Hill@sas.com]

Hey,

I'm a new user of the .NET Memory Profiler, so bear with me.

I have already run the .NET Memory Profiler stand-alone, pointed to my executable, and it runs just fine.

Now I am trying it from within Visual Studio. FYI, the project I am trying to profile is mixed mode - the startup project is a C++ project, though it uses managed code and includes some C# dlls. Anyway, if I create a new project, and on the Launch page of settings, I select "Start target of current Visual Studio project" as the type of process to launch, then when I tell the profiler to "Start using Profile Project", it causes Visual Studio to do a build (which is not needed), but does not actually launch the application.

Is this a known bug, or have I missed something?

Thanks,

Eric

[Andreas Suurkuusk]

The Visual Studio integration in .NET Memory Profiler currently do not support C++ projects as startup projects, only C# and VB.NET projects are supported. To profile a C++ project, you will need to select "Standalone application", just as you noticed. We will try to improve this in the next version of the profiler.