Start Profiling Session from Visual Studio
dotTrace integrated in Visual Studio lets you profile the currently opened solution, more specifically, a particular run configuration.
Run configurations let you create a number of predefined configurations with different run parameters for your startup project, an arbitrary executable, or even any static method. For example, you can create a number of configurations that will differ by CPU architecture and CLR version. These configurations can be used to quickly run or debug your project without the need to set up particular run parameters each time. As dotTrace shares the ReSharper platform, it is able to profile any run configuration.
By default, your solution has only one run configuration - the configuration for the startup project.
Start profiling of a startup project
Do one of the following:
If you did not yet create any run configurations, in the Visual Studio menu, select
.If you have more than one (default) run configurations, the Visual Studio menu, select [project_name] (VS Startup) configuration. Then select .
and choose the
This will open the Profile Startup Project window.
In the Profile Startup Project window, configure profiling settings as described in Configure Profiling Session.
Click Start.
Start profiling of a specific run configuration
Create a run configuration for your project, executable, or particular static method. To do this, in the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper documentation.
, select the corresponding item. This will open the window with run configuration options. For more information about them, refer to theSelect the created run configuration using the Visual Studio menu
.In the Visual Studio menu, select Profile Startup Project window.
. This will open theIn the Profile Startup Project window, configure profiling settings as described in Configure Profiling Session.
Click Start.
Quickly start profiling of a specific run configuration
You can also use the Performance Profiler window to quickly start profiling of a particular run configuration.
Create a run configuration for your project, executable, or particular static method. To do this, in the Visual Studio menu, select
, select the corresponding item. This will open the window with run configuration options.For more information about them, refer to the ReSharper documentation.
Open the Performance Profiler window using the Visual Studio menu .
In the Performance Profiler window, in the list, select profiling type.
In the Performance Profiler window, in the list of run configurations, select the created configuration.
Click .
Quickly start profiling of a static method
Profiling of run configurations for static methods can be started using the action list of the particular static method.
Place the caret at the method and press
In the list, select
.Note that this session will use the profiling type that is currently selected in the Performance Profiler window.
In the Profile Startup Project window, configure profiling settings as described in Configure Profiling Session.
Click Start.
Start profiling of another application
You can also start profiling of an arbitrary application rather than a particular run configuration.
In the Visual Studio menu, select Profile Application window.
. This will open the