Overviews (Profiling Tools)

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This section provides conceptual and terminology overviews for Visual Studio Profiling Tools, which you can use to measure the performance characteristics of an application under development.

In This Section

• Profiling Tools Performance Session Overview
  Learn the basics of performance profiling with the Visual Studio Profiling Tools.

• Performance Session Properties
  Describes the properties that can be used to configure a performance session.

• Understanding Sampling Data Values in Profiling Tools
  Learn the data values that are reported when you use the sampling profiling method.

• Understanding Instrumentation Data Values in Profiling Tools
  Learn the data values that are reported when you use the instrumentation profiling method.

• Understanding Memory Allocation and Object Lifetime Data Values in Profiling Tools
  Learn the data values that are reported when you use the .NET memory profiling method.

• Understanding Resource Contention Data Values in Profiling Tools
  Learn the data values that are reported when you use the concurrency profiling method.

• Performance Explorer Window
  Describes the window that is used to configure and start performance sessions.

• Data Collection Control Window
  Describes the window that is used to control how performance data is collected when the application under development is being profiled.

• CPU and Windows Counters in Profiling Tools
  Learn about the CPU and Windows performance counters that can provide additional performance data in a performance session.

• Profiling and Windows Vista Security
  Learn the issues and steps that are required to collect sampling data and to profile cross-session applications on Windows Vista.

See Also

Concepts

Getting Started with Profiling Tools

Analyzing Application Performance by Using Profiling Tools