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.NET EXECUTION PROFILER

The .NET Execution Profiler is a tool for profiling .NET applications. Its main purpose is to trace the program flow of a running application, helping the developer to understand how a program works, especially in error cases. This profiler is not intended to be used as an optimization tool for taking performance measures. Reasons for using the .NET Execution Profiler:

Get information about where exceptions occur in already deployed applications

No recompilation or special linking necessary

Get information about timing and sequence behaviour of your code

Norrow the logged data with triggers and filters

Easy to use

It’s small, it’s free

The main output of the .NET Execution Profiler is a text file containing information about method calls and exception routing. Sample output:

[2005-07-12 13:45:24.279] -- Log created [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 15 -- trigger on enter: ProfiledApp.Form1.button1_Click [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 15 ProfiledApp.Form1.button1_Click entered [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 16  ProfiledApp.Form1.Foo entered [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 17   ProfiledApp.Form1.Foob entered [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 17   ProfiledApp.Form1.Foob exited [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 16  ProfiledApp.Form1.Foo exited [2005-07-12 13:45:25.701] 15 ProfiledApp.Form1.button1_Click exited [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 15 ProfiledApp.Form1.button2_Click entered [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 16  ProfiledApp.Form1.Bar entered [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 17   ProfiledApp.Form1.ThrowException entered [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 18    Exception thrown, name System.Exception [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 18    Exception handler for System.Exception    entered in method ProfiledApp.Form1.Bar [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 19     Exception thrown, name System.Exception [2005-07-12 13:45:26.154] 19     Exception handler for System.Exception     entered in method     ProfiledApp.Form1.button2_Click [2005-07-12 13:45:27.529] 19     Exception handler exited [2005-07-12 13:45:27.529] 18    ProfiledApp.Form1.button2_Click exited [2005-07-12 13:45:28.326] 36           ProfiledApp.Form1.Dispose entered [2005-07-12 13:45:28.341] 36           ProfiledApp.Form1.Dispose exited [2005-07-12 13:45:28.357] 3 ProfiledApp.Form1.Main exited [2005-07-12 13:45:28.357] -- end of log