Start Profiling Session from Visual Studio
Supported OS: Windows
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.
Do one of the following:
If you did not yet create any run configurations, in the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper | Profile | Run Startup Configuration Performance Profiling.
If you have more than one (default) run configurations, the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper | Tools | Run Configurations and choose the [project_name] (VS Startup) configuration. Then select ReSharper | Profile | Run Startup Configuration Performance Profiling.
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.
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You can also run profiling of a startup project through the Performance Profiler window which can be opened via the ReSharper | Profile | Open Performance Profiler window.
Create a run configuration for your project, executable, or particular static method. To do this, in the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper | Tools | Run Configurations... | Add, select the corresponding item. This will open the window with run configuration options. For more information about them, refer to the ReSharper documentation.
Select the created run configuration using the Visual Studio menu ReSharper | Tools | Run Configurations... | [run_config_name] | Configure | Select.
In the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper | Profile | Run Startup Configuration Performance Profiling. 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.
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 ReSharper | Tools | Run Configurations... | Add, 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 ReSharper | Profile | Open Performance Profiler.
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
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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 AltEnter
In the list, select Debug method | Profile ([profiling_type]) method.
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.
You can also start profiling of an arbitrary application rather than a particular run configuration.
In the Visual Studio menu, select ReSharper | Profile | Run Application Performance Profiling.... This will open the Profile Application window.