When navigating to previous calls/events during debugging with IntelliTrace, I can't see a snapshot of the value of locally-defined variables. When hovering with the mouse I get the message "Intellitrace data has not been collected". Does anyone know why?
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A:
The Intellitrace team covered this a bit in one of their blog entries. Here is the link (it's in the comment section)
The short version though is that collecting all local variables was too much of a performance hit. Instead they only selectively capture locals. That is they will collect locals which
- Are evaluated in the debugger during the debugging session
- Values which have trace points defined against them
- Local variables which are specifically configured to be captured (didn't go into detail on how to do that other than setting up a trace point).
JaredPar
2010-03-18 21:17:15
Thanks, JaredPar. That makes sense. Digging deeper into the MSDN documentation, I noticed they allude to this somewhat. However, they emphasize what *is* collected over what is not.
Andy West
2010-03-18 21:30:22
A:
Note that a later blog post from the same blogger - http://blogs.msdn.com/ianhu/archive/2010/03/16/intellitrace-what-we-collect.aspx - expanded quite on the limitations and how you can get around them somewhat.
Omer Raviv
2010-05-12 17:47:32