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Laughing John Newbie
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Jan 30, 2012 3:07 PM

V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

I cannot (or at least cannot work out) how to attach to a running Silverlight (5) instance.

 

When I choose attach to from the menu I don't see Internet Explorer in the list of items I can attach to. It would be very helpful if I could as I sometimes work on SL applications that cannot be launched locally and "stand alone".

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Jan 30, 2012 8:25 PM in response to: Laughing John
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

Hi,

Unfortunately this version of dotTrace can't attach to Silverlight processes.

Maybe "Profile .NET process" mode will help you? In this mode you launch profiling and then start (in any way) the process you want to profile; dotTrace "catches" the .NET processes and profiles them, and then you get a snapshot of the application you're interested in.

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Feb 13, 2012 2:48 PM in response to: Asia Rudenko
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

I just wanted to say that this feature would be important to me as well! Please consider it.

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Feb 13, 2012 2:53 PM in response to: Laughing John
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

Doh! I just realised I posted the original question and I can't delete my reply to hide my stupidity

 

It's a shame this feature is not supported it would be very useful. Sometimes it's quite difficult to set up an accurate test that can run outside of the main site. My particular use case is that I'm using Silverlight with Microsoft CRM and the CRM system passes context (including authentication) and parameters to the SL application which means I cannot test stand-alone.

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Feb 13, 2012 4:02 PM in response to: Asia Rudenko
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

Thanks for the suggestion Asia. I tried it but unfortunately I get a "cannot open snapshot" message. I've attached a screen video of my attempt (excuse the quality).

 

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Feb 13, 2012 4:14 PM in response to: Laughing John
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

Further to that I just managed to get it work by just choosing "profile silverlight application" and following the same URLs that I show in the video. So that's great!

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Feb 13, 2012 5:53 PM in response to: Laughing John
Re: V5 EAP - Attach to Silverlight

Glad to hear it works now We're working on attach to Silverlight, but we just didn't manage to put it in 5.0.

 

As for "Could not open snapshot" problem, thanks for letting us know. Can I ask you to send us logs?

1. close standalone dotTrace and Visual Studio with integrated dotTrace.
2. go to your Temp folder (you can find its location by executing 'cd %Temp%' in command line).
3. find 'JetLogs' folder and delete it.
4. launch dotTrace, prepare for profiling; in 'Profiler Configuration' dialog, press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F11.
5. click 'Expert options' button.
6. enable 'Enable logs' checkbox (only this checkbox).
7. click OK and run profiling.
8. perform actions that lead to issue.
9. close dotTrace.
10. send content of %Temp%/JetLogs to me (support@jetbrains.com or alexandra.rudenko@jetbrains.com).
Thanks in advance.

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