How to: Create a profiling tools call trace report

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The call trace report for the Visual Studio Profiling Tools lists timing information for each entry and exit point to your application's functions and each call to other functions by your function. Call trace reports are available for profiling data only if it was collected with the instrumentation method.

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You cannot display call trace reports in Visual Studio. You must use the VSPerfReport command-line tool to generate a comma-separated value (.csv) or .xml file. For more information about this tool, see VSPerfReport.

To create a call trace report

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. At the command prompt, type the following command:

    ToolsPath VSPerfReport VSPFile /CallTrace [/Xml]

    Item Description
    ToolsPath The path of Profiling Tools command-line tools. For more information, see Specify the path to command-line tools.
    VSPFile The profiling data (.vsp or .vsps) file. Full and partial paths are accepted.
    Xml Generates an XML formatted report.

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