Analyzing Application Performance using Profiling Tools
The Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition Profiling Tools let developers measure, evaluate, and target performance-related issues in their code. These tools are fully integrated into the IDE to provide a seamless and approachable user experience. The performance tools support two methods of profiling: sampling and instrumentation.
Profiling an application is straightforward. You begin by creating a new performance session. In Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers, you can use the Performance Session Wizard to create a new performance session. After a performance session ends, data gathered during profiling is saved in a .vsp file. You can view the .vsp file inside the IDE. There are several report views available to help visualize and detect performance issues from the data gathered.
Profiling Tools can also be used from the command-line. This allows users the flexibility of running these tools from the command-line or using them to automate tasks that use script.
For more information about current and advanced topics related to performance and profiling, search the Microsoft Developer Network for topics and Microsoft blogs. Use the keywords Enterprise Performance Tools Team.
In This Section
Overviews (Profiling Tools)
Learn the concepts and terms that you will use to collect, view, and analyze code performance using the profiling tools.Getting Started with Profiling Tools
Learn the basic procedures that you will use when you collect, view, and analyze code performance by using the profiling tools.Collecting Profiling Data With the Profiling Tools
Learn how to specify the projects or binaries to profile, select a profiling method, choose the performance data to collect, and set other profiling session options. Also learn how to use performance session properties and interactive procedures to start and stop profiling, and how to limit the performance data that you collect to just the information that you want.Analyzing Profiling Tools Data
Learn how to view and analyze the collected performance data in the Profiling Tools Report view window.Comparing Profiler Data Files
Learn how to compare two profiler data files to analyze performance changes.Saving and Exporting Profiling Tools Data
Learn how to save profiling data for archiving or sharing.Using the Profiling Tools From the Command-Line
Learn to use profiling tools from the command prompt.Profiling Tools APIs
Learn how to use the managed and native Profiling Tools APIs to control data collection directly from source code.