Good Profiler for C# 2010?

c# visual-studio profiling profiler
Nathan picture Nathan · Apr 13, 2011 · Viewed 15.2k times · Source

I love the profiler for Visual Studio Ultimate 2010. But I do not have $8,000 or whatever it costs to just get that functionality. Are there any profilers that are just as good, if not better? It does NOT have to be free. I basically would like to see something like method X has this amount of inclusive time, times it was called and by WHO, exclusive time, and so on. Does anything else do this?

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joe_coolish picture joe_coolish · Apr 13, 2011

Ants Profiler is very good: http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/

Also I like dotTrace: http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/

Ants is more robust but dotTrace's company support is awesome :)

Also, with dotTrace, if you are doing opensource projects, then you can qualify for an OpenSource license. They also have frequent updates and they still support .netCF (For VS 2008. Not important to you, but shows they care and support all the Windows Platforms)

EDIT:

Here are 2 screenshots of a project I'm working on, profiled in dotTrace. As you can from the first image, you get the call tree, organized by threads. It shows the inclusive time and the inclusive run percentage of each method and sub methods.

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In this picture you see the exclusive run time, number of calls and in the lower panel, the functions that called the selected method (in the top panel) and the number of calls and recursive calls.

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I am not affiliated with jetbrains, but I have several opensource projects and they have given me free licenses because of them. For that reason I really like the company.

Hope this helps!

(Oh, and I have the Professional version. I'm not sure what the other version have or don't have)

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