Ants profiler is not showing the results

Question

I am using the ants profiler to see performance problems. I have compiled my windows application in release mode and started the Ants profiler, but once I click the stop profiler, I can't see any results. Is there anything that needs to be done?

Answer 1

There're a few things that can cause this problem: have you tried the suggestions in Red Gate's support center for "Troubleshooting missing results"?

That suggests looking at the following possibilities:

• Missing PDB files - either because you don't have them for the profiled code, or they're not stored in the expected directory and ANTS can't find them
• No available managed code to profile - either because you're trying to profile on a remote machine, are profiling methods exclusively comprising unmanaged code, or are profiling something where no method contributes more than 1% of total CPU time
• Unreadable performance counters - in which case rebuilding the performance counters will usually help.