ANTS Profiler™
Walk-through 1: Performance profiling
This walk-through will show you:
- How to set up a new project and start profiling
- How to interact with the timeline
- How to drill down into the results to identify the bottleneck
- How to extract the most out of the source-code pane
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Step 2: Setting up a project
ANTS Profiler is launched, and this window automatically opens up. Here, you can set up your profiling session by choosing:
- The type of application to profile (.NET desktop application, ASP.NET, Windows service, etc.)
- The application you want to profile (.exe file)
- The level of granularity, by picking the profiling mode you want to use (line-level and method-level timings, just method timings, or method timings for method with source code only)
- The timing display you prefer (CPU or wall clock)
- Whether you also want to profile child processes
- The working directory to work from
For this walk-through, we have chosen to profile a .NET desktop application, called Mandelbrot and we want to obtain method and line-level timing results. We want our timings to be displayed in CPU time.





