Profiling in Visual Studio 2008 PRO

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How do I use the profiler in Visual Studio 2008?

I know theres a build option in Config Properties -> Linker -> Advanced -> Profile (/PROFILE), however I can't find anything about actauly using it, only articles I was able to find appear to only apply to older versions of Visual Studio (eg most say to goto Build->Profile to bring up the profile dialog box, yet in 2008 there is no such menu item).

Is this because Visual Studio 2008 does not include a profiler, and if it does where is it and where is the documentation for it?

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '10 at 05:21

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Microsoft has released stand-alone Profiler for VS 2008 here

answered Feb 06 '10 at 05:21

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Thank you, I didn't know of it's existence. – Hernán Jun 30 '10 at 18:34
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OK, I downloaded, installed and got it to work. How do I view vsp files? – B Seven Dec 10 '10 at 06:01
Quote from page: "A full installation of Visual Studio 2008 with profiling support must be used to view the generated performance reports." – Macke Mar 21 '13 at 14:12
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See http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php/2009/03/21/got-visual-studio-2008-professional-want on how to view results using Excel/CSV. – Macke Mar 21 '13 at 14:14

ChrisN · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-14T23:39:22.170

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The profiler is only available in the Team System editions of Visual Studio 2008. The last version that I used that included a profiler was Visual C++ 6.0.

For Visual Studio 2005, you could try Compuware DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition.

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answered Sep 14 '08 at 22:08

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Supposedly Visual Studio 2010 will have a SKU priced below Team System that will include their new profiling tools (including a nice parallel profiler) – bsruth Nov 04 '08 at 17:09

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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There was also a list of .NET profilers in the What Are Some Good .NET Profilers question.

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answered Sep 15 '08 at 03:41

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 13 '13 at 06:51

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As I understood from reading a few sites, when you use VS 2008 stand alone profiler to create .vsp files, you will need either VS2008 Premium or Ultimate to view .vsp files.

By the way, I installed VS2012 Release candidate which is available for free (trial version?) and I can use its profiling engine.

edited Sep 13 '13 at 06:51

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answered Jun 26 '12 at 10:18

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Profiling in Visual Studio 2008 PRO

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