App Fabric Visual Studio 2013 Issue

Question

I've upgraded my solution to work with VS2013. All builds fine.

However it seems to an issue with initialising AppFabric and it appears to be hanging on the line:

new DataCacheFactory();

The exact same code is working fine in VS2010 so it's completely thrown me!

Rakes

@mcolegro did you ever rectify your similar issue? (https://mcmap.net/q/1851745/-appfabric-datacachefactory-initialization-hangs-in-vs2013-works-fine-in-vs2010-and-vs2012/2220455) – Rakes

What version of AppFabric? We have a VS2013 solution targeting AppFabric Cumulative Update 4 for AppFabric 1.1 and it works just fine. – Opener

@Opener Exactly the same as you. The same solution works for everyone else in my company apart from me! – Rakes

@Rakes I think I have the same problem, any solutions? – Palermo

Hi @TamimSalem - unfortunately not. I have to use VS2010. Please let me know if you find a solution. – Rakes

couldn't fix yet, I added a bounty to @mcolegro's question, hope someone has a solution. – Palermo

@TamimSalem are you using a remote AppFabric server or a local one? I'm using a remote one but I do have some remains from having previously ran it locally but could not completely uninstall it. I don't think this should affect it if it's set up as a remote server anyway... – Rakes

@dhardy, i'm using a local one, in my personal case, i'm using the azure emulator to run a web and cache roles. – Palermo

@TamimSalem - I have managed to resolve my issue. It was a strange but simple one. VS2013 switched my localhost port from 51725 to 2345. When I inspected IIS Express, it was using 51725. I then switched my web app to use port 51725 and now it all works. – Rakes

@Rakes awesome! will try it out now. – Palermo

Also note that I had to run VS2013 as administrator (right click > run as administrator) too – Rakes

@Rakes - I have not been able to resolve this on my machine. I was hoping the port fix would resolve it, but the port is not the issue in my case. – Quadruplet

Answer 1

Can you take a hang dump of your client application when it is in a HUNG state using the Debug Diagnostic 2.0 tool (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40336) and then analyze the dump file by just double clicking the .dmp file and see the callstack of the thread that is hung while trying to create the DataCacheFactory ?

That will give an idea of where the thread is currently stuck at and should help in finding out the cause of the problem.

To collect a hang dump of the process you can just install the tool and open the tool and then click cancel on the "Rule Wizard" and go to the processes tab , find your client process and then choose Create Full User Dump

Inland

I created the dump and looked at it. The only thing I could get from it was that one thread was waiting for another to finish. I couldn't tell what the thread was waiting for. – Quadruplet