Does anyone have a good recomendation for a code
profiling tool that works with .Net? I'm trying to
squeeze out better performance on a web app and would
like to use a profiling too.

thanks,
john

Sounds like this will be an interesting book. When do you expect to have it
published?

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I've just done an evaluation of a few of those, and here's what I
found:

1) Borland OptimizeIt - didn't particularly like it, didn't feel
"good", didn't really seem to show what I was looking for, works only
for .NET framework 1.1 (and we still have lots of 1.0 stuff), and it's
rather expensive at $699

2) Intel VTune - same price, $699, but it appears from their web site
that even though they support .NET, it's only for managed C++ and
doesn't know anything about C# or VB.NET.

3) Red-gate ANTS Profiler (www.red-gate.com) - quite simple, and quite
easy to use - but in some cases it would appear to be almost a bit too
simple. $299 for a license - for that price, it offers too little for
me (e.g. hardly any output capability - can't seem to save reports in
HTML or PDF)

4) And now for the winner: AutomatedQA's "AQTime .NET Edition".
http://www.automatedqa.com/products/aqnet.asp
I really liked this profiler, it feels very intuitive, offers a broad
range of profiling options, very detailed output, exports results to a
range of formats, and just feel "right" overall. At $349.99 it's
reasonable in price, and it "just works" - highly recommended.

Marc

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Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!

In addition to Marc's suggestion, I personally prefer the CompuWare
Devpartner Profiler [1]. For a non-distributed app, this profiler is great,
and its free.

Nick Wienholt, MVP
Maximizing .NET Performance
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=217
Sydney Deep .NET User Group www.sdnug.org

[1] http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/profiler/default.asp

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Hopefully round October. We are in the final stages of post-production, so
(hopefully) it shouldn't be too much longer.

Nick

Microsoft has a great CLR Profiler, which you can download from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/highperfmanagedapps.asp.
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Dave Beauchemin
Microsoft MVP, MCP
www.webdotmag.com

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Nick, that's an amazing profiler. Didn't know it is from Numega. The paid
version is expensive, but bound to be worth it. Thanks. Looking forward to
your forthcoming book too.
A Joshi

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