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Eqatec Profiler

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Author: Eqatec

Latest version: 2.0
Added 2009-09-10

Code profiler.

Features include:
- Tells you how many times each method was called and how long it took
- Run-time overhead: typically your app will run 30% slower and become 30% bigger when profiled
- Command-line version included
- Profiles methods, not individual statements
- Profiler API: control the profiler programmatically
- Use attributes to prevent any method from being profiled or from appearing in the report

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Mole

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Latest version: 4.2
Added 2008-03-04

Visual Studio debug visualizer With property editing.
During debugging sessions, debug visualizers allow developers to view objects and data using a customized interface. Visual Studio ships with several visualizers. Mole was designed to not only allow the developer to view objects or data, but to also allow the developer to drill into properties of those objects and then edit them.

Features include:
- view application UI elements in a TreeView control
- view all properties, dependency properties and attached properties and non-public fields of any element or sub-element in the UI tree
- allows unlimited drilling into objects and sub-objects
- breadcrumb type navigation when drilling into child objects
- when Mole finds an IEnumerable object, the data can be viewed in a DataGridView or in the properties grid
- handles collections that contain multiple types of data
- allows the developer to view non-public fields of all these same objects
- tested on WPF, WCF, WF, WinForms and ASP.NET projects on Vista, XP Pro, x32, x64, VS2005 and VS2008, C# and VB.NET

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CLR Profiler for .NET Framework

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Author: Microsoft

Latest version: 4
Added 2003-10-31Updated 2011-03-28

Allows developers to see the allocation profile of their manage applications.
The CLR Profiler includes a number of views of the allocation profile, including a histogram of allocated types, allocation and call graphs, a time line showing GCs of various generations and the resulting state of the managed heap after those collections, and a call tree showing per-method allocations and assembly loads.

Aslo available for .NET 2 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=be2d842b-fdce-4600-8d32-a3cf74fda5e1) and .NET 1.1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=86CE6052-D7F4-4AEB-9B7A-94635BEEBDDA&displaylang=en)

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YourKit Profiler for .NET

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: YourKit

Latest version: 5.0
Added 2006-06-07Updated 2011-03-28

CPU and memory profiler for .NET.

Features include:
- On-demand profiling
- ASP.NET support
- Ability to profile in production environment
- Remote profiling
- Ability to export profiling results to HTML
- Telemetry: allows viewing key information about an application in runtime within live graphs, providing details about memory, garbage collection activity, loaded classes, threads, as well as general CLR and OS information
- CPU profiling: hot spots, method call tree and method list; "Merged callees" view; Method back traces view
- Memory profiling: Objects view; Browse instances of particular class; "Find Paths" helps to find reasons of memory leaks; Find strings that match given pattern; "Quick Info" action; Ability to compare memory snapshots
- Integration with Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008
- Supports 32-bit and 64-bit systems

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SpeedTrace

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging, Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

Author: ipcas

Latest version: 3.2
Added 2005-09-13Updated 2007-11-29

Traces and profiles applications including Windows applications, Windows services, ASP.NET applications and others.

Features include:
- Application tracing: monitor the application flow (method calls).
- Data tracing: makes the arguments and return values of functions accessible.
- Profile: evaluates and presents statistics.
- Trigger: enables event-based tracing and profiling.
- Filter: reduces output on-the-fly with pre- and post-processing filters.
- Callback API
- TraceAnalyzer: visualize collected data.
- Save to disk
- Search engine

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XteProfiler

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: Asymmetric Software Systems

Latest version: 0.9.5.1
Added 2010-07-27

Trace and memory profiler.

Features include:
- Supports profiling of Windows executables, ASP.NET Development server applications, IIS applications, Windows services and Silverlight 4 applications.
- Supports trace and memory profile modes.
- Supports 32-bit and 64-bit profiling

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ANTS Memory Profiler

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: Red Gate Software

Latest version: 6.0
Added 2011-01-07

Find memory leaks and optimize memory usage in your .NET applications.

Features include:
- Ability to take and analyse an arbitrarily large number of memory snapshots
- Support for snapshots up to 2GB (32-bit operating systems), and 4GB (64-bit operating systems)
- Arbitrary snapshot comparisons
- Summary information for profiling session, individual snapshots, and snapshot comparisons
- Large object heap fragmentation statistics
- Filtering options to narrow your search down to the objects you really need to know about. Standard object filters and advanced object filters available.
- Class reference view, which allows you to see where instances of a given class are being referenced
- Object retention graph allows you to see the shortest reference paths to all GC roots, which will need to be broken to fix memory leaks
- One-step set-up dialog
- Ability to profile .NET executables, ASP.NET applications and web services in IIS and web development server, services, COM+ applications, and XBAP applications
- Capable of attaching to a running process
- Integration with Visual Studio

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AQtime .NET

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: AutomatedQA

Latest version: 5
Added 2003-05-20Updated 2006-12-09

Performance profiler and memory allocation debugger for 32- and 64-bit Windows and .NET-connected applications.

Features include:
- can be integrated into Visual Studio or can run as a stand-alone application.
- can profile almost any type of executable: exe, dll, ocx, bpl, cpl, NT services, ISAPI and ASP.NET applications, COM, DCOM and COM+ servers. Can profile templates, overloaded and recursive routines, and other special forms of code.
- can profile both 32-bit and 64-bit modules.
- supports managed and unmanaged code.
- fully thread-aware. Profiling can be turned on or off on a thread basis, results can be analyzed by a single thread or cumulatively, threads can be named from application code.
- uses an open COM-based architecture. Users can create their own custom profilers and panels.
- will never modify your source code, unless you choose to export the results into the source as comments.

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Rational PurifyPlus

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Categories: Code coverage, Profiling - Debugging

Author: IBM

Latest version: 6.13
Added 2005-03-31

Set of automated runtime analysis tools for improving Linux-, UNIX- and Windows-based application reliability and performance.
Designed for Java, C, C++, and .NET applications.

Features include:
- Runtime and memory management error detection: memory corruption and leak detection.
- Application performance profiling: highlights application performance bottlenecks.
- Code coverage analysis: identifies untested code.
- Instruments code at the byte or object level.
- Server-side Java support: install PurifyPlus on your Web server to analyze Java Server Pages (JSP) and servlets.
- For software developers working with Java, Visual C++ and all VS.NET managed languages (including C# and VB.NET).
- Runs directly inside WebSphere Studio, Eclipse or Visual Studio, as well as stand-alone.
- Selective instrumentation: allows you to select which modules of an application to analyze.

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DILE

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Categories: Decompilation, Object browsing - Assembly viewers, Profiling - Debugging

Author: Zsolt Petrény

Latest version: 0.25
Added 2006-01-03Updated 2007-03-05

DILE (Dotnet IL Editor) is a decompiler and an IL debugger.
It allows managed application to be debugged without having the source code and it can help to understand what is going on in the background as even the .NET Framework assemblies can be debugged. Works both on x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) operating systems.

Disassembling features:
- displaying IL code
- generics support
- quick search by different categories (classes, methods, fields, tokens, etc.)
- supports both 32 and 64-bit assemblies

Debugger features:
- both v1.1 and v2.0 applications can be debugged
- allows debugging dynamic assemblies
- attaching to process/detaching; starting new process to debug with arguments
- stepping in/out/over on the IL level
- setting instruction pointer; run to cursor
- debuggee can be stopped on specific events (e.g.: CreateThread, LoadAssembly)
- MDA (Managed Debug Assistant) notifications
- adding/removing/activating/deactivating breakpoints
- "Object Viewer" to check the current value of an object's properties and fields or evaluate expressions, call methods
- text displayer form to quickly view strings with or without escape characters as simple text or html
- call stack; local variables/arguments; debug messages; debugging events; modules; threads; watch panel
- filter on which exceptions to stop the debuggee
- decimal or hexadecimal number display

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GlowCode .NET

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: Electric Software

Latest version: 7.2
Added 2004-08-26Updated 2010-05-07

Real-time performance and memory profiler for Windows and .NET applications.
GlowCode supports 64-bit and 32-bit applications, with native, managed, and mixed code.
GlowCode isolates boxing errors, identifies excessive memory usage, and finds hyperactive and loitering objects. GlowCode allows you to analyze program behavior and optimize for highest performance.

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.Net Performance Validator

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Author: Software Verification

Performance profiler.

Features include:
- Data views: Callstack view, Raw Statistics view, Statistics view, Call Tree view, Call Graph view, Analysis view, Diagnostic messages
- Data searches
- Session comparison
- Data export: Memory data can be exported to HTML and XML
- Instrumentation
- No need to rebuild

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DevPartner for Visual C++ BoundsChecker Suite

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Categories: Code analysis - Standards verifiers, Code coverage, Profiling - Debugging

Author: Micro Focus

Latest version: 9.0
Added 2004-03-18Updated 2008-12-21

Detects and analyzes runtime errors, pinpoints performance bottlenecks and verifies test coverage.

Features include:
- Error detection
- Code coverage analysis
- Performance analysis
- Integrated reporting
- System comparison with SnapshotSDK
- Visual Studio integration
- Can be integrated into automated testing and nightly build processes through a command-line interface
- Helps native Visual C++ developers interface with managed .NET code by monitoring native application calls that cross the managed boundary into .NET code. It provides information on the frequency of crossed boundaries to help developers determine when native code should be migrated to .NET code. It also tracks errors in native code that can cause problems in managed code such as finalizer problems and unhandled exceptions thrown across boundaries.

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Auto Debug for .Net

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: Auto Debug System

Latest version: 1.3
Added 2006-09-07

Used to trace programs automatically without recompilation.
Auto Debug records the results of input and return value during functions calls. It auto analyses the target program, auto displays and traces the export functions of classes.

Features include:
- Records input parameters and return value of the methods where breakpoints have been set
- Supports debug version and release version
- Supports multithread: a sequence chart displays the relationships between the threads
- Supports attaching to a process

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NHibernate Profiler

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Categories: Object-relational mapping, Profiling - Debugging

Author: Hibernating Rhinos

Latest version: 1.0
Added 2009-12-17

NHibernate Profiler (NH Prof) is a real-time visual debugger for NHibernate.

Features include:
- Visual insight into the interaction between your database and application code
- Analysis and detection of common pitfalls when using NHibernate
- Analysis is delivered via SQL and linkable code execution
- Supports NHibernate 1.2.x, 2.0.x and 2.1.x

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C# Source Code Metrics

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Categories: Code analysis - Standards verifiers, Profiling - Debugging

Author: Semantic Designs

Latest version: Beta
Added 2003-12-19

Computes a number of useful metrics for C# program source code suites.

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.NET Memory Profiler

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Categories: Profiling - Debugging

Author: SciTech Software

Latest version: 3.5
Added 2003-05-20Updated 2009-10-15

Tool for finding memory leaks and optimizing the memory usage in .NET programs.
.NET Memory Profiler allows you to retrieve information about all instance allocations performed on the garbage collected heap (GC heap) and all instances that reside on the GC heap. The retrieved information is presented in real-time, both numerically and graphically.

Features include:
- can collect snapshots of the heap, which can optionally allow the presentation of field values of instances. It is also possible to compare two snapshots, which is a way of detecting memory leaks in a program. A snapshot provides information about: all classes, all instances of classes, the call stacks of the instance allocations, the path to a root from each instance.
- a dispose tracker provides additional data about disposable instances. An API makes it possible to automatically detect memory leaks and control the profiler from within the profiled program.
- a heap utilization tracker gives you information about how the GC heap generations are used by allocated instances.
- the profiler also presents information about the native memory of the profiled process or any other process running on the computer.
- unmanaged resources tracker
- possibility to attach to a running .NET process
- automatic memory analysis
- 64-bit support
- integration with Visual Studio 2008, 2005 and 2003

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