> Hi Lei,
>
> class[] means an array of some type of class. The
> CLRProfiler only outputs this if it's unable to obtain
> more precise type information.
>
> There is a bug in the public download version of
> CLRProfiler that causes this to happen with certain
> versions of the .NET framework, I think starting with
> Whidbey.
>
> There is a pretty simple way to fix this in the source
> code that's publicly available. Go to the "ProfilerObj"
> subdirectory in the source code, load
> the "ProfilerCallback.cpp" source file. Go to line 3998.
> You should be inside method
> ProfilerCallback::_InsertGCClass and positioned close to
> this source code:
>
> //
> // before you break set the realClassID to the
> value that it was before the
> // last unsuccessful call
> //
> if ( realClassID != NULL ) // <- line 3998
> realClassID = prevClassID;
>
> Now just comment out or delete line 3998, preserving the
> body of the if:
>
> //
> // before you break set the realClassID to the
> value that it was before the
> // last unsuccessful call
> //
> // if ( realClassID != NULL ) // <- line 3998
> realClassID = prevClassID;
>
> Rebuild. This should fix the problem. Note that the issue
> concerns the log file generation, so old log files will
> still show "class[]".
>
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> Thanks
> Peter
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I download the CLR profiler and run it. It's great and
> the documentation is
> >very good. But I don't know what is class[] in graphs.
> It appears frequently
> >but the document doesn't mention it. Is it the metadata?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >

> I think building with VS.NET 2005 Beta should work fine, but I haven't
> actually tried.
>
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> Peter
>