Profiler for Visual Studio 2008, C++?

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Are there any good, free (or at least reasonably cheap) profilers for at least native C++ that can integrate with Visual Studio 2008 Professional?

I looked at DevPartner community edition but they seem to only support Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.

Failing that are there any good free/cheap profilers in general that I can get working with VS with relativly little friction?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '08 at 07:53

At my workplace we use AQTime. It's not free ($600 or 30-day trial) but it really works wonders. I like it because it can handle both native (we do C++) and managed code. It works in stand-alone mode, integrates with Visual Studio, and also works with Borland's IDE (for those C++ Builder and Delphi fans out there).

But I will be watching this question to see if there are any free tools I can use at home =)

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 26 '10 at 14:35

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Microsoft actually provides a stand-alone verson of the profiler, which you can use from the command-line. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fd02c7d6-5306-41f2-a1be-b7dcb74c9c0b&displaylang=en

answered Aug 26 '10 at 14:35

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It seems that to view its output you need to have VS2008TS. OP asked about Professional version. – liori Nov 05 '10 at 14:45
Another possibility would be in this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/profileWithVsPerfCmd.aspx – Davide Quack Jan 19 '11 at 10:50
Microsoft Performance Drivers cannot be installed on Win8 and upper – themadmax Mar 10 '16 at 12:38

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '09 at 11:45

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Free profiler for VS 2008: http://unick-soft.ru/Articles.cgi?id=8 It is russian article, but you can use translate google com.

answered Sep 06 '09 at 11:45

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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This technique is free, and works well in Visual Studio.

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answered Mar 04 '10 at 14:41

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 29 '09 at 23:47

Another vote for AQTime. We've been really happy with it. But of course it's not free as you asked...

I tried CodeAnalyst once but as far as I could see it was doing polling rather than instrumentation, and hence gave fairly crude results. Haven't found any free profilers for Windows that I liked better than that.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 15 '11 at 05:28

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http://supercomputingblog.com/windows/how-to-profile-c-code-in-visual-studio-for-free/ if you want something very simple

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 15 '08 at 14:02

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Intel's VTune or AMD's CodeAnalyst are both free, I believe.

answered Nov 15 '08 at 14:02

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Intel's VTune is not free (although there is an evaluation). – Mitch Wheat Nov 15 '08 at 14:06

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