Why I can not find "Debug Managed Memory" on Actions menu?

Question

Why I can not find "Debug Managed Memory" on Action menu as described at this MSDN article: Analyze .NET Framework memory issues?

My Visual Studio:

How it is supposed to look:

Feltner

Maybe a silly question but do you have the same version of Visual Studio (2013)? Express edition? Maybe this is a new feature or is not included in the variant you have. Sorry if this is not the case, just asking the obvious I guess. – Cahan

Could it be lacking due to Visual Studio version? – Chukchi

I tried on Visual Studio 2013 Premium and Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate. Same result. I collected the dump file using "D:\Temp>procdump -ma 9056" – Feltner

@ScottChamberlain, the w3wp is just an example that I took from msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn342825.aspx. The first screenshot is my Visual Studio. I'm trying to investigate a memory leak issue. The application is a WPF app. – Feltner

Answer 1

In one of the related articles, two requirements are mentioned (emphasis added):

Before I begin, there are a few things to note about the "Debug Managed Memory" feature discussed in this post:

1. The option will only be available from the dump summary page in the Ultimate version of Visual Studio 2013. If you are using Premium or Professional you will not see the option.
2. The process the dump file was collected against must have been running on .NET 4.5 or higher. If the dump was collected on 3.5 or previous the option will not appear, if it was collected on 4.0 it will fail to launch with an error message.

Garlandgarlanda

In Visual Studio 2015, it seems to only be available in Enterprise edition. – Microcurie

In VS2019 that seems to be the same (available in Enterprise). – Natator

Btw you can download a free trial of Enterprise. This feature is gold. – Mooring