ANTS Installer Crashes with Visual Assist X

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  Thanks for that - good to know. These kind of symptoms usually mean the software has been built with licensing components that detect any kind of "interference" from external sources. The profiler works in "instrumentation" mode which means it injects code into the running process- third party licensing dlls sometimes will detect this and crash the program deliberately.

  Chris.Allen June 04, 2009 05:58

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  Hi Chris,
  
  I think you may have misunderstood the problem I described. The crash didn't occur when running ANTS 5. The crashes occurred in the installer. I think it has something to do with the modal dialog that Visual Assist X throws up at start-up when the "Show tip of the day" option is turned on. My guess was that the installer didn't like the fact that Visual Assist X is putting up a modal dialog when its trying to install ANTS into Visual Studio. When I turn the "Show tip of the day" option off so Visual Assist X doesn't display this modal dialog on start-up of Visual Studio the installation of ANTS 5 is successful and without errors.
  
  Michael

  mjordan June 04, 2009 10:57

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  Yeah, that sounds like an installer issue: in v5 we've put quite a lot of effort in to making sure we don't leave menu items behind if you uninstall the product. To do this we have to start up Visual Studio a couple of times during installation: if it pops up a modal dialog every time it starts, for any reason, the outcome probably won't be too clever. Thanks for letting us know, although at this stage I'm unsure how we'd go about fixing it, or even if we can.
  
  
  Thanks,
  
  
  Bart

  Bart Read June 04, 2009 12:17

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