Kirill Filin

Problem After updating Rider, project builds may fail with the following error message Error MSB4216 : Could not run the "<Name>" task because MSBuild could not create or connect to a task host wit...

Symptoms When trying to use Navigate to Type Declaration in dotMemory or dotTrace, the profiler shows a message "Unable to navigate to <project_name>. Probably, the IDE requires your attention in a...

Background One might want to profile an application on a remote system or in a container using dotTrace. This can be achieved using the dotTrace Command-Line Profiler, which enables application pro...

Question How to collect dotMemory logs to investigate a particular problem? Answer Standalone dotMemory Windows: Clear %temp%\JetLogs directory Open dotMemory installation location Launch dotMemor...

Question How can one profile a .NET / .NET Core application using dotTrace? Answer One can follow the steps described in Profile .NET Core or .NET Application to profile a .NET application. This ar...

Problem When attaching Rider debugger to a running Unreal Engine project on Windows, Rider is unable to resolve and trigger breakpoints in a game/plugin/module. Cause Projects targeting Unreal Engi...

Scenario When working on a codebase, one might have specific styles and conventions that are already in place. The "Detect Code Style Settings" feature helps quickly align with these conventions wi...

Question How to collect dotTrace core logs to investigate a particular core profiler problem? Answer Follow the steps below to collect profiler core logs: Clear %temp%\JetLogs and %systemroot%\Tem...

Question dotMemory Unit throws an exception in dotMemoryApi.SaveCollectedData() when profiling a project targeting .NET 8 or later. What is the cause of this issue? Cause .NET 6.0 is the latest ve...

Question How to collect Rider Java performance snapshot to investigate a particular performance problem? Answer Frontend thread dump: (when IDE is totally unresponsive to user actions) Collect a th...