VS2008: PRF0025 with MFC application

Question

Hi,

I can't get the profiler to work (from the Visual Studio IDE).

My Configuration: Windows Vista x64 SP 2, Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 Development Edition, Intel Core i7-950 (Patch KB958842 installed because of BSOD)

If I try to profile our application (MFC, 32 Bit), it crashes immediately.

If I try to profile a simple dialog based MFC-application, the profiler runs through, but produces either no VSP-file at all or one of size 0 bytes.

This happens both with sampling and instrumentation mode.

Answer 1

Hello,

Thanks for your post!

Visual Studio 2008 Development edition profiling tools should work in a 64-bit environment.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd164415(VS.90).aspx

This issue is caused by the OS redirector and Registry redirector in a 64-bit box. Those redirectors make things different with Visual Studio profiler (see here for more information). Since you compile your MFC application as a 32bit machine, you need to execute 32-bit regsvr32.exe against your 32-bit Profiler DLL.

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Answer 2

Hello,

 

sorry, but I don't understand how the second article you mention does apply to my problem, because it's about "CLRs profiling API".

Neither do I use CLR nor write my own profiling DLL.

I just wanted to try to profile a simple native MFC 32 dialog based exe (for the beginning).

When I come back to work on Monday I will try if at least a simple Win 32 "Hello World" works.

 

 

Answer 3

The simple Win 32 programm didn't work either.

Answer 4

Does nobody know a solution?

Our company has bought 7 licences of the expensive VS 2008 development editions instead of the cheaper professional editions ONLY because of the profiling tools, and now they don't work!

 

Answer 5

Using "Process Monitor" I have found out that the VSP file is created and filled:

 

14:30:55,0153084 devenv.exe 2380 696 QueryOpen D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp NAME NOT FOUND 
14:30:55,2279212 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 5484 QueryOpen D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp NAME NOT FOUND 
14:30:55,2280022 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 5484 CreateFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Read/Write, Disposition: OverwriteIf, Options: Write Through, Sequential Access, No Buffering, Non-Directory File, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Created
14:30:55,2292851 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 5484 QueryStandardInformationFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS AllocationSize: 0, EndOfFile: 0, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
14:30:55,2293051 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 5484 CloseFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS 
14:30:55,2504005 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 CreateFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Read/Write, Disposition: OverwriteIf, Options: Write Through, Sequential Access, No Buffering, Non-Directory File, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: 0, OpenResult: Overwritten
14:30:55,2528887 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 WriteFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 20.480, I/O Flags: Non-cached, Priority: Normal
14:30:56,2238560 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 WriteFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 20.480, I/O Flags: Non-cached, Priority: Normal
14:30:56,4053234 SearchProtocolHost.exe 5832 4316 CreateFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SHARING VIOLATION Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a
14:30:57,3005184 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 WriteFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Offset: 20.480, Length: 131.072, I/O Flags: Non-cached, Priority: Normal
14:30:57,3039994 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 WriteFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 20.480, I/O Flags: Non-cached, Priority: Normal
14:30:57,3048793 VSPerfMon.exe 4432 4176 CloseFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS 

 

But when the profiling ends, it's deleted immediately by devenv.exe:

14:30:57,3124551 devenv.exe 2380 3868 QueryOpen D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS CreationTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:55, LastAccessTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:55, LastWriteTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:57, ChangeTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:57, AllocationSize: 151.552, EndOfFile: 151.552, FileAttributes: A
14:30:57,3572464 devenv.exe 2380 3868 QueryOpen D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS CreationTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:55, LastAccessTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:55, LastWriteTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:57, ChangeTime: 26.08.2010 14:30:57, AllocationSize: 151.552, EndOfFile: 151.552, FileAttributes: A
14:30:57,3573937 devenv.exe 2380 3868 CreateFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Desired Access: Read Attributes, Delete, Disposition: Open, Options: Non-Directory File, Open Reparse Point, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened
14:30:57,3576366 devenv.exe 2380 3868 QueryAttributeTagFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Attributes: A, ReparseTag: 0x0
14:30:57,3576637 devenv.exe 2380 3868 SetDispositionInformationFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS Delete: True
14:30:57,3577015 devenv.exe 2380 3868 CloseFile D:\Prog\test\profile2\profile2100826.vsp SUCCESS