I urgently 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?
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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.
DevelopingChris
2008-08-14 03:55:21
can you provide a bit more detail on the whole MVP thing? thanks,
Keivan
2009-07-16 07:07:13
MVP's get the license to redgate products for free, its a loop hole that gets you in, if you have people on your team who are MVP's making the cost a non-issue.
DevelopingChris
2009-07-16 21:18:40
Do you have a link describing this loophole and how to capitalize on it?
Keith Sirmons
2009-08-11 14:51:13
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I have used AQtime and it has never let me down. I am sure there is a trial version.
Mark
2008-08-14 03:57:36
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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.
AdamSane
2008-08-14 03:59:30
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dotTrace from JetBrains is widely used.
Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is excellent for providing static analysis.
Leon Bambrick
2008-08-14 04:00:15
dotTrace 3.1 does not work with .NET 4. We have to wait for dotTrace 4.0.
Bobby Cannon
2010-07-15 17:56:14
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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)
John
2008-08-14 04:01:56
nprof is .Net 1.1 only I think. If you can compile to .Net 1.1 then it may still be useful to profile it and then recompile to .Net 2 for release. However this isn't possible if you start using .Net2 features such as generics and nullable types.
locster
2009-07-23 12:22:12
Agree with Matthew, ProfileSharp is terrible, couldn't get it to profile even the simplest command line exe. Don't waste your time
Michael Dausmann
2009-08-26 01:25:12
I've used .Net Memory Profiler to find a memory leak; it's pretty good. It's got my seal of approval!
Cylon Cat
2009-12-07 13:10:14
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We use Ants profiler where I work. It gives very detailed information in a simple manner.
GoodEnough
2008-08-14 04:04:26
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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.
lomaxx
2008-08-14 04:26:03
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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.
Patrik
2008-08-14 07:50:47
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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?
Will Dean
2008-08-14 10:03:47
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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 ...
Jason Sundram
2008-10-23 21:19:44
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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.
Craigger
2008-12-30 22:03:26
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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.
Meta-Knight
2009-05-11 18:54:00
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AQTime (both perf and memory) or ANTS (v4 performance profiler or v5 beta memory profiler) here.
Miha Markic
2009-05-12 06:07:15
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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.
HullCitySteve
2009-05-13 12:53:20
Yes it looks like they have changed the licencing for the latest version, and started charging for commercial use. I'd still highly recommend it though.
HullCitySteve
2010-01-20 10:48:18
Update - it looks like they have changed the licence terms again to make it free for commercial use for standard .NET applications (but not CF or Silverlight)
HullCitySteve
2010-04-21 15:17:37
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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?
Mike Dunlavey
2009-06-06 14:49:07
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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.
Fabrice
2009-10-27 17:38:25
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I'm using YourKit .NET profiler http://www.yourkit.com/.net/profiler/ It's very good.
Serge
2009-10-28 10:44:28
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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.
David Schmitt
2010-02-08 13:13:54