ANTS Performance Profiler™
Walk-through: 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
Step 1: Access ANTS Performance Profiler from Visual Studio
This walk-through shows how you can use ANTS Performance Profiler to identify the most time-critical parts of your application. We will illustrate this with a .NET desktop application, Mandelbrot, which draws a fractal mathematical function called the Mandelbrot set.
ANTS Performance Profiler is integrated in Visual Studio, so you can launch the profiler from within Visual Studio, while you're working on your application. Simply click on the ANTS 5 menu on the Visual Studio toolbar. In this instance, we're going to profile the whole Mandelbrot application by clicking on Profile Performance (which will give us method and line-level data, as opposed to just method-level data).







