Profiling SharePoint subsites

Date: 14/02/2012
Product: ANTS Performance Profiler

In ANTS Performance Profiler version 7.0, subsites in a SharePoint collection are not displayed in the site selection dropdown menu when setting up a SharePoint profiling session.

To profile SharePoint subsites, update to ANTS Performance Profiler version 7.0.1 or later, in which this problem is fixed, or follow the steps below.

To profile a subsite:

In ANTS Performance Profiler, on the ANTS Performance Profiler Settings dialog box, under Choose application type to profile, click SharePoint web application (IIS).
In the ASP.NET web application (URL) field, enter the subsite's URL.
Select the required Profiling mode, SQL and file I/O, and Profile child processes options; see Working with Application Settings.
Select the port on which to profile your application:
- If your application does not bind to a specific port, select Unused port and choose a port that is not used by IIS.
- If your application must use the port on which it currently runs, select Original port (IIS will restart).
If IIS does not restart correctly, use IIS Manager to stop the website until you have finished profiling.

The port where the application will be profiled is displayed at the bottom of the ANTS Performance Profiler Settings dialog box.
If required, select Manually specify ASP.NET account details and enter the User name, Password and Domain.
ANTS Performance Profiler profiles your web application as the Windows Local System user. If the Windows Local System user might not have appropriate permissions to use your SharePoint site collection, enter the credentials of a user who does have the required permissions. Note that the user you specify must also be an administrator on the computer on which ANTS Performance Profiler runs.
If required, change the performance counters to record; see Setting up Charting Options.
Click Start profiling.