Any decent C# profilers out there? [closed]

Question

I need a C# profiler.

Although I'm not averse to paying for one, something which is free or at least with a trial version would be ideal since it takes time to raise a purchase order.

Any recommendations?

Answer 1

What's your objective?

Is it your objective to locate specific statements and get a rough idea of what they are contributing to your total execution time, so you can find ways to do them differently?

For that, I swear by this method.

Answer 2

You can try the following:

• nprof (free but kinda old)
• ProfileSharp (open source)
• .Net Memory Profiler (really good for memory leaks, there's a trial version)

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Edit: Nprof has been replaced with SlimTune and works with .Net 4.0 applications

Answer 3

I used Ants profiler on a large c# project a year and a half ago. It really performed very nicely for what it cost, and even outperformed a few of the more expensive competitors.

It calculates cost on with almost a line by line resolution.

Answer 4

AQTime (both perf and memory) or ANTS (v4 performance profiler or v5 beta memory profiler) here.

Answer 5

EQATEC profiler did the job here.

Answer 6

dotTrace from JetBrains is widely used.

Patrick Smacchia's awesome NDepend is excellent for providing static analysis.