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What Are Some Good .NET Profilers?
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I have converted 32-bit application to 64-bit. How do I measure performance of application in both versions.
Is there any benchmarking/ performance measurement tool/dll?
Is it possible to measure performance on module/functionality level rather than entire application. For example, I would like to see performance GraphicsRender functionality in 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
Thanks in advance.
The one is available by microsoft for .net profiling is CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4. You can use that for any of your .Net 4.0 application. For 2.0 the same profiler is also available.
You can give it try to jetbrains profiler for performance measurements.
Try to use ANTS Profiler: http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/
It is as a free trial period. You can install it in your Visual Studio.
Is measures how many time a method is called, it's execution time and also measures memory consumption.
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C# for embedded systems? [closed]
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As I'm learning C# and my budding interest in embedded devices, I wondered If I can use C# in an embedded environment. How is C# going to help us in the realm of the Internet Of Things.
Note: The only question I found that resemble this is this one: C# for embedded devices
But this question has been asked 3 years ago. Obviously many things have changed since then.
Yes, there are at least three ways:
Through the .Net Micro Framework, however .Net MF is supported on a limited range of architectures, has a footprint of around 300Kb, and is not a hard real-time OS - thus precluding it form a large section of embedded applications. Although originally a Microsoft product, it is now an open source project.
The .NET Compact Framework running on Windows Embedded CE or Windows Mobile.
Through Mono running on embedded Linux.
C# requires a runtime environment that is not insubstantial which is its biggest barrier to embedded deployment in many applications. However if you have a platform with resources in the order of 4Mb ROM, and 1Mb RAM, or sufficient to support CE or Linux, then it is entirely possible. For high volumes or high value products, with complex UI and connectivity requirements it may make sense, but for simple applications it may be hardly worth the resource overhead and hardware cost.
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Best .NET memory and performance profiler? [closed]
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I am looking for information about runtime of function,
like "Include actual execution plan" in SqlServer,
to know how much time took every function execution,
there is any way?
I am work in ASP.NET c# application vs 2003.
Thanks.
You can use profiler such as
ants-performance-profiler
dotTrace
See this question: Best .NET memory and performance profiler?
You can always use the c# Stopwatch to track how long things are taking:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch(v=vs.110).aspx
If this is production code and you are worried about the performance, it would probably be worth while to add it's performance to your logging/diagnostics structure, so that it can be monitored in the field.
Check with speed trace and appsight. They are pretty detailed in profiling and recording data.
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I am currently working on a C#/XAML application, I need to do performance profiling to figure out XAML bottlenecks. Any good profilers/tools available?
Visual Studio (Performance tools) download and How to do.
RedGate Ants Profiler
Telerik JustTrace
The last 2 are good ones, and not free
PerfView is free tool that is used by the CLR performance team. It is specifically designed for profiling the performance of .NET applications and can do both CPU and memory (managed heap) investigations. A plus is that it doesn't require running an install on a machine to collect performance data. There is an awesome series of videos by Vance Morrison on using the tool.
what app are you developing, WPF, Silverlight or win8? Basiclly the profile tool inside Visual Studio is enough to figure out the bottlenecks.
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I need a C# profiler.
Although I'm not averse to paying for one, something which is free or at least with a trial version would be ideal since it takes time to raise a purchase order.
Any recommendations?
I used Ants profiler on a large c# project a year and a half ago. It really performed very nicely for what it cost, and even outperformed a few of the more expensive competitors.
It calculates cost on with almost a line by line resolution.
You can try the following:
nprof (free but kinda old)
ProfileSharp (open source)
.Net Memory Profiler (really good for memory leaks, there's a trial version)
Edit:
Nprof has been replaced with SlimTune and works with .Net 4.0 applications
The EQATEC profiler is very good and is completely free. It's easy to setup and use, and doesn't seem to add too much of an overhead to the application. I've just started using it today and have already found a couple of bottlenecks I wouldn't have spotted otherwise.
dotTrace from JetBrains is widely used.
Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is excellent for providing static analysis.
I maintain a comprehensive list of profilers for .NET on SharpToolbox.com.
You'll find there the tools suggested here and more, each with a short description of what it proposes.
It's interesting that no-one mentions that there's one in the higher-end versions of Visual Studio - I've always found that to be good enough for execution profiling. For memory profiling I use Memory Profiler which has already been mentioned, but isn't what I would generally describe as 'a profiler'.
What kind of profiling were you trying to do?
We use Ants profiler where I work. It gives very detailed information in a simple manner.
We use .NET Memory Profiler. Its kinda ugly but very useful for finding dangling references.
I originally tried Red Gate's ANTS profiler which is very sexy, but from a memory leak point of view it sucks for the following reasons:
1) Its ridiculously slow. It was taking half an hour to get the application into a state to start recording (takes 20 seconds without red-gate).
2) Red Gate needs to run its own tool on its own tool. It was using 900MB of memory by the time I finished two snapshots! It then crashed :(
However the timing component of Red Gate ANTS was impressive. Just don't bother with the memory profiler, unless you are dealing with a trivial (small footprint) application.
I have used AQtime and it has never let me down. I am sure there is a trial version.
I'll second red gate's ANTS profiler. I've used it to track down some really troubling performance issues and it was dead simple to use (low learning curve) and presented nice, detailed data in a way that was easy to understand. The price tag is worth it, but it isn't free ...
Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is
excellent for providing static
analysis.
I would thoroughly recommend NDepend for static analysis, but just be warned that you'll probably need to put aside a day or two to actually analyse the truckload of information that it provides as well as work out what all the stats actually mean in terms of your code.
I have had good luck with the .NET memory profiler
EQATEC profiler did the job here.
The current release of SharpDevelop (3.1.1) has a nice integrated profiler. It's quite fast, and integrates very well into the SharpDevelop IDE and its NUnit runner. Results are displayed in a flexible Tree/List style (use LINQ to create your own selection). Doublecliking the displayed method jumps directly into the source code.
Currently don't use them, a buddy of mine raves about Ants profiler. I know its a for-pay product not sure how expensive. If you happen to staff an MVP you might be able to leverage that to get a license for free.
AQTime (both perf and memory) or ANTS (v4 performance profiler or v5 beta memory profiler) here.
I found the .NET Memory Profiler yesterday, and I must say that I'm very impressed by it.
I'm going to order my license today.
Although not very good to profile memory usage, the profiler included in some versions of Visual Studio does a very good job of profiling execution speed.
What's your objective?
Is it your objective to locate specific statements and get a rough idea of what they are contributing to your total execution time, so you can find ways to do them differently?
For that, I swear by this method.
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I need a C# profiler.
Although I'm not averse to paying for one, something which is free or at least with a trial version would be ideal since it takes time to raise a purchase order.
Any recommendations?
I used Ants profiler on a large c# project a year and a half ago. It really performed very nicely for what it cost, and even outperformed a few of the more expensive competitors.
It calculates cost on with almost a line by line resolution.
You can try the following:
nprof (free but kinda old)
ProfileSharp (open source)
.Net Memory Profiler (really good for memory leaks, there's a trial version)
Edit:
Nprof has been replaced with SlimTune and works with .Net 4.0 applications
The EQATEC profiler is very good and is completely free. It's easy to setup and use, and doesn't seem to add too much of an overhead to the application. I've just started using it today and have already found a couple of bottlenecks I wouldn't have spotted otherwise.
dotTrace from JetBrains is widely used.
Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is excellent for providing static analysis.
I maintain a comprehensive list of profilers for .NET on SharpToolbox.com.
You'll find there the tools suggested here and more, each with a short description of what it proposes.
It's interesting that no-one mentions that there's one in the higher-end versions of Visual Studio - I've always found that to be good enough for execution profiling. For memory profiling I use Memory Profiler which has already been mentioned, but isn't what I would generally describe as 'a profiler'.
What kind of profiling were you trying to do?
We use Ants profiler where I work. It gives very detailed information in a simple manner.
We use .NET Memory Profiler. Its kinda ugly but very useful for finding dangling references.
I originally tried Red Gate's ANTS profiler which is very sexy, but from a memory leak point of view it sucks for the following reasons:
1) Its ridiculously slow. It was taking half an hour to get the application into a state to start recording (takes 20 seconds without red-gate).
2) Red Gate needs to run its own tool on its own tool. It was using 900MB of memory by the time I finished two snapshots! It then crashed :(
However the timing component of Red Gate ANTS was impressive. Just don't bother with the memory profiler, unless you are dealing with a trivial (small footprint) application.
I have used AQtime and it has never let me down. I am sure there is a trial version.
I'll second red gate's ANTS profiler. I've used it to track down some really troubling performance issues and it was dead simple to use (low learning curve) and presented nice, detailed data in a way that was easy to understand. The price tag is worth it, but it isn't free ...
Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is
excellent for providing static
analysis.
I would thoroughly recommend NDepend for static analysis, but just be warned that you'll probably need to put aside a day or two to actually analyse the truckload of information that it provides as well as work out what all the stats actually mean in terms of your code.
I have had good luck with the .NET memory profiler
EQATEC profiler did the job here.
The current release of SharpDevelop (3.1.1) has a nice integrated profiler. It's quite fast, and integrates very well into the SharpDevelop IDE and its NUnit runner. Results are displayed in a flexible Tree/List style (use LINQ to create your own selection). Doublecliking the displayed method jumps directly into the source code.
Currently don't use them, a buddy of mine raves about Ants profiler. I know its a for-pay product not sure how expensive. If you happen to staff an MVP you might be able to leverage that to get a license for free.
AQTime (both perf and memory) or ANTS (v4 performance profiler or v5 beta memory profiler) here.
I found the .NET Memory Profiler yesterday, and I must say that I'm very impressed by it.
I'm going to order my license today.
Although not very good to profile memory usage, the profiler included in some versions of Visual Studio does a very good job of profiling execution speed.
What's your objective?
Is it your objective to locate specific statements and get a rough idea of what they are contributing to your total execution time, so you can find ways to do them differently?
For that, I swear by this method.