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Xamarin Profiler is not available in VS 2017 Enterprise (which ran as user)
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The problem is present in both Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 (v 14.0.25431.01 Update 3) and Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (build 26228.09 and build 26228.10).
My computer is in active directory. When I run Visual Studio 2017 as user the "Analyze -> Xamarin Profiler" menu item is disabled (painted in grey color). But when I run Visual Studio 2017 as administrator the "Analyze -> Xamarin Profiler" menu item is available for usage.
For Visual Studio 2015 it's disabled even in administrator mode.
I tried to reinstall Xamarin Profiler, but it is not helped.
How to fix it?
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@Nss could you make sure you have your application loaded in Visual Studio, and select the (default) Debug configuration
You may want to follow the troubleshooting instructions if you continue to have an issue
I too have the issue that the Profiler is always greyed out / deactivated in Windows 10 (creators update) and VS 2017.
I went through the instructions here https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/profiler/troubleshooting/
My app is set to debug configuration - created new empty app to validate.
I tried both types of emulation, HyperV and AVD, as well as direct device connection via USB - No effect.
I installed Xamarin Studio for Windows - No effect.
I confirmed that I have an enterprise license and am logged in.
I can start the profiler from outside of Visual Studio with no issues.
Starting VS2017 as administrator does not solve the issue for me.
What else can I try?
Thanks,
Edwin
I solved by running the installer again from here: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/profiler/#Download_and_Install
It seems that the profiler that is installed with VS2017 is not working...
There was a bug added recently to XVS that made the menu item be disabled whatever you tried, so can you please try with the latest updates and see if that's gone away?
Same problem here, VS 2017 Enterprise version with license and profiler grayed out
Did you enable profiling in the project settings? Because for me it was also greyed out, but it's enabled after setting the checkbox:
The place of Enable profiling option is different from https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/profiler/#Download_and_Install suggests.
Please update docs properly.