Is there any schema documentation for config.xml?

[raghav.s]

We were upgrading our project to .Net 4.6.2 and we came across an issue where we used to get the exception. "Cannot load file or assembly System.Net.Http..." intermittently because the appD profiler was interfering in the order of loading assemblies. The appD team asked us to put the line

<full-no-dependency-mode enabled="true" />

in the <profiler> section as a fix for the issue.

Can someone please explain what this does?

Also is there any documentation for all the XML tags we can put within the config.xml? Like <advanced-performance>, <assembly-whitelist> etc. ?

[Raunak.Mohanty · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghav,

This config is specific to .Net Profiler which helps it identify what modules are loaded in the process. This help detect dynamically loaded assemblies.

Following document talks about more common configuration properties
https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO44/.NET+Agent+Configuration+Properties

The configurations you are talking about should not be used each and every case and used for optimisations in specific cases and should be applied only after consultation with Support.

Thanks,
Raunak

[raghav.s]

Thank you for the answer. I understand that this tag controls the behaviour of the profiler with regards to dynamically loaded assemblies. May I also know what happens when you set <full-no-dependency-mode enabled /> to True and when you set it to false?

[Raunak.Mohanty]

Hi,

Sorry this is what I explained in first two line

full-no-dependency-mode : This config is specific to .Net Profiler which helps it to identify what modules are loaded in the process. This also helps detect dynamically loaded assemblies and how the agent is instrumenting them. This is extremely internal to .Net CLR Profiler implementation

Thanks,

Raunak

[raghav.s]

Thank you for the prompt response. If I understand correctly setting it to "True" helps to detect dynamically loaded assemblies and setting it to "False" won't detect them?