Visual Studio Profiling .psess does not exist or is invalid

Question

I've followed the tutorial to perform project profiling as described here. It worked just fine for a while, but when I try profiling again, I now always get the following error:

I couldn't find much help online - can anyone help?

NOTE: I have a Winforms project with .Net 4.5.2 using the x86 Release build platform.

Update: I did re-install VS and re-create my project. It then worked just fine for a while, and reappeared... Anyone has some idea??

Answer 1

Ok, it appears that indeed, it is related to extensions. More specifically, in my case, it turned out that the bug was related to the Automatic Versions extension.

Take a look at Tool -> Extensions and Updates and try updating what shows under "Updates"...

Once I did updates and repairs of those, it started working fine. Repairing VS itself did, however, not help.