ANTS Performance Profiler

ANTS Performance Profiler 7.0.2 Release Notes
This release of ANTS Performance Profiler adds full support for profiling SharePoint 2010 sites, web applications running in IIS Express, and web applications deployed to Windows Azure or Amazon EC2.

The new integrated decompilation tool, using .NET Reflector technology, lets you decompile methods without source directly from the ANTS Performance Profiler interface. You can navigate decompiled source from third-party and framework assemblies as if it was your own code. If you have the PDB file, you can even view line-level timings for the decompiled code, letting you identify the exact code that caused the bottleneck.

The release also includes an early access version of the ANTS Performance Profiler continuous profiling tool, a new profiler mode under development at Red Gate. It's designed to log performance data on live, running ASP.NET applications. The tool logs method calls as they happen on your site, and stores results to display in a web interface: browse back through the timeline to see historical performance data, and analyze problems as they really occurred.

• Watch your code execute while your site is used, with hit counts, timings, and CPU figures.
• View real data captured while performance issues occurred: no need to stop your site, relaunch with a profiler, and guess at reproduction steps.
• Access results directly in your web browser.

This early access build of continuous profiling features an automatic installer, a timeline showing CPU usage, and a call tree that lets you see the method calls executing during a selected period of your application’s execution.

Enhancements:

• When using integrated decompilation, assemblies in .vb format are now decompiled to VB source code, rather than C#.
• "File not found" exceptions when decompiling source code are now handled more gracefully.

Bug fixes

• PP-1280: The profiler no longer uses isolated storage, working around a .NET framework bug in this mechanism.
• PP-1846: Resolves an intermittent hang, associated with the error message "Tried to access an out of range method ID".
• PP-1667: SharePoint subsites can now be selected from the URL dropdown list when setting up a SharePoint profiling session.
• PP-1843: Web services hosted in IIS Express can now be profiled directly when setting up an IIS Express profiling session.
• PP-1661: IIS subsites for SharePoint web services are now filtered out of SharePoint profiling dropdown.

ANTS Performance Profiler 6.2 Release Notes

This version removes a dependency on the Microsoft J# runtime, thereby making installation both quicker and more reliable. A number of other minor bug fixes are also included.
Please note that ANTS Performance Profiler 6.2 does not support SharePoint 2010 or Windows Phone 7.

ANTS Performance Profiler Standard 6.0 New Features:

• New Silverlight 4 support
• New Attach to a running process

ANTS Performance Profiler 5.2 is a bug fix release for ANTS Performance Profiler 5.x. Enhancements and fixes include:

• Profiling of IIS child processes now works, which enables easier Sharepoint profiling
• Fixed StackOverflowException when profiling Sharepoint
• Thread affinity no longer depends upon whether or not inlining is enabled
• Fixed performance issue with locating PDB files for source code view
• Fixed problem with logging configuration which caused some levels to be ignored
• No longer checks for updates on every start-up

This is a recommended upgrade for all users of ANTS Performance Profiler 5.x, particularly those working with Sharepoint.

During performance profiling, ANTS Profiler records the time it takes for each line of code to be executed, as you are using your application. Detailed results then reveal the slowest lines of code and methods, allowing you to quickly identify performance bottlenecks and optimize your .NET application accordingly.

• Identify performance bottlenecks within minutes
• Fast and responsive – minimal impact on the execution of your program
• Line-level timing – drill down to the specific lines of code responsible for performance inefficiencies
• Profile any .NET application, including ASP.NET web applications

ANTS Profiler is available in two editions, Standard and Pro:

Key Features in both editions:

• Supports .NET executable, Windows service, COM+ Server and ASP.NET web applications (including multi-threaded applications)
• Line-level code timing
• Timeline for viewing the profiling data just for a selected region of activity
• Call Tree which auto-expands the worst performing stack traces

Features available in Pro edition only:

• Call Graph view for visualizing all the callers and callees for a particular method
• Method-level code timings (faster profiling modes)
• Profiling child processes
• Save profiler results
• Find / filter functions

ANTS Performance Profiler Features:

• Profile any .NET language. It doesn't matter whether you're programming in C#, VB.NET, managed C++, or in COBOL.NET. If you're programming for the .NET Framework, then ANTS Performance Profiler can help you.
• Profile ASP.NET web applications so you can identify slow code in your .NET websites and web services. ANTS Performance Profiler will identify slow-loading pages and, more importantly, tell you why they are slow.
• Profile Windows Forms applications so you can optimize rich, client-side applications.
• Profile .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 applications – WCF (Indigo), WPF (Avalon), WF, XBAP.
• Profile web applications on IIS 5, IIS 5.1, IIS 6, IIS 7, and ASP.NET Web Development Server (Cassini).
• Support for 64-bit profiling on x64 processors.
• Integration with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, so you can start profiling your application from within your IDE. One click launches ANTS Performance Profiler within seconds, with the executable path already set.
• Timeline for zeroing in on problem code; select a region of activity and view the data just for that region.
• Call tree which auto-expands the worst performing stack traces.

Additional features available in ANTS Performance Profiler Pro only:

• Method-level timings (faster profiling modes).
• Profiling child processes.
• Save and load profiler results.
• Find/Filter functions.
• Call graph for visualizing all the callers and callees for a particular method.

Purchasing a support contract provides you with free upgrades as well as support.

• Upgrades - For the duration of the support contract you will not need to pay for upgrades.
• Support - For the duration of the support contract, you will receive support on the use of the products by email and, if necessary, by telephone or video conference.