Runar Ovesen Hjerpbakk

Software Philosopher

Enabling Profile Test in Visual Studio 2012's Test Explorer

If you have Visual Studio (VS) 2012 Enterprise or Ultimate edition, you can right click on any test in the Test Explorer window and start a profiling session for the selected test. However, for me the option to "Profile Test" was greyed out and disabled.

In order to get this feature to work, I needed to delete VS' ComponentModelCache-folder:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache

After a restart of VS the option was finally enabled:

Enable profile test in Visual Studio 2012s Test Explorer

Intuitive.