Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/6469/b6e32a4a-42d8-4a6e-b1c8-993cab306469/VisualStudioToolbox50_220.jpg Channel 9 - Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production IntelliTrace is a great tool. It records and traces your app's code execution and stores this information in a trace file. You can open up that trace file later on and figure out why your app isn't behaving as expected. This can save you huge amounts of time during development. But what happens when the app goes into production and issues arise? In this episode, Larry Guger shows us how you can use the free standalone IntellliTrace Collector to gather this information from apps running in production. Larry shows us how to download the tool, configure it to collect data, and then how to analyze that data in Visual Studio. en Wed, 22 May 2013 06:19:15 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:19:15 GMT Rev9 Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production Debugging on steroids. I really can use this for Winforms or WPF apps.

posted by Oguz

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634850651683153966 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:19:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634850651683153966 Oguz Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production Something that was not clear for me from the video:
does the application has to be compiled with debug info?

Marcel

posted by marceldevg

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634852082223237333 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:03:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634852082223237333 marceldevg Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production @marceldevg

During analysis of the log file Visual Studio needs to be able to find the symbol files (.pdb) that were generated when the application was built.  The application can be compiled using the "release" mode as long as symbols were included.

When you open the log file you need to make sure that Visual Studio knows where the matchng symbol files are located.  You can set this location in Tools -> Options -> Debugger -> Symbols.

The symbol files contain the data that matches the compiled binary code back to source files.

Hope that helps.

Larry Guger

posted by lguger

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634853054379505827 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:03:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634853054379505827 lguger Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production Any plans to focus on limiting data for security purposes?  Due to PII (Personally Identifiable Information), our administrators would not allow this to be run without the ability to limit the data collected.  Does the collection plan limit this?

[Nevermind, saw the Tools|Options that collects events only. Would be nice to be a bit more granular about what call information is recorded rather than all or nothing.]

posted by rkayman

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634860175626811671 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:52:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634860175626811671 rkayman Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production @rkayman

Thanks for watching and providing the feedback.  We have heard the PII concern a couple of times and we are certainly looking at the best methods for addressing this concern.

Cheers,
Larry

posted by lguger

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634860190459863616 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:17:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634860190459863616 lguger Re: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production posted by jose

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634871058253641484 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:10:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Collecting-IntelliTrace-Data-in-Production#c634871058253641484 jose